latter it is frequently known to enter pigeon-houfes. In the 

 cavity of a tree where this bird had bred, were found among 

 its callings, the head and bones of fome fpecies of fnake, 



Mr. Pennant has defcribed a variety of this bird as a 

 diftind fpecies, under the name of the Brown Owl ; authors 

 have held different opinions, fome regarding the brown variety 

 as the female. Mr. Montague however mentions that he 

 has killed them both from the fame neft, confequently he 

 confiders them as mere varieties ; in confirmation of which, 

 we can ftate, that in the early part of laft year (1811) a pair, 

 the one brov^n and the other tawny, were ftiot from the neft, 

 which was formed in the hollow of an old pollard, on 

 Dulwich-Common 5 the brown one on difledion proved to be 

 the male. 



Provincial names, Ivy-Owl, Wood-Owl, Hooting-Owl, 



Screech^Owl, and Howlet, 



