OTTLE OWL. 
never lodging in haUow trees : " nor is it," 
according to BufFon, " entirely a bird of night ; 
but sees much better in the day than the other 
nocturnal birds, and even chaces the Swallows 
dnd other small birds, though with very little 
success. It is," he adds, more fortunate in 
the search for Mice, which it swallows not 
entire, but tears them in pieces with it's bill 
and claws ; and it even plucks the birds neatly 
before it eats them : and in this instin6l it dif- 
fers from the other Owls. It lays five eggs, 
which are spotted with white and yellow; and 
constru6ls it's rude and almost bare nest in the 
holes of rocks and old walls*'* 
