There can he no question that these Owls were of 
different sexes, for one was fully a third larger than the 
other. They behaved, too, like mated birds but of course 
they may have been young of the same brood or their 
association on this occasion may have been purely for¬ 
tuitous. 
This is the first opportunity I have ever had of 
watching the Long-eared Owl while actually engaged in 
hunting, all the birds that I have hiterto observed having 
been either met with in the day-time or seen at evening 
flying across openings on their way from our piece of woods 
to another. I confess that I had not suspected that they 
sought their prey to so large a degree in the open and 
by flying about in search of it, but had pictured the bird 
at ting erect and still in the depths of the woods, watching 
the ground beneath. 
