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latter it is frequently known to enter pigeon-houfes. In tlie 
cavity of a tree where this bird had bred, were found among 
its caftings, the head and bones of fome fpecies of fnake. 
Mr. Pennant has defcribed a variety of this bird as a 
diftin6t 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 brown and the other tawny, were fhot from the neft, 
which was formed in the hollow of an old pollard, on 
Dulwich-Common , the brown one on dilTection proved to be 
the male. 
Provincial names, Ivy-Owl, Wood-Owl, Hooting-Owl, 
Screech-Owl, and Howlet. 
