172 POPULAR SCRIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

the Hall. When I found that this first settlement had
succeeded so well, I set about forming other establishments.
This year I have had four broods. . . . Confident of pro-
tection, these pretty birds betray no fear when the stranger
mounts up to their place of abode. Whenever we go to
look at them, we invariably see them upon the perch, bolt
upright, with their eyes closed, apparently fast asleep.”

The word 4th, translated “screech-owl” in Isaiah xxxiv.,
and which occurs-there only, is supposed to mean the eagle-
owl, Budo maximus, or Strie Bubo (Plate XI.), which haunts
ruinous places in many parts of the world; its appearance,
and the dismal sounds it: utters, harmonizing well with the
localities which it delights to frequent. This owl is found
in various countries of Europe, in the north of Africa, in
western Asia, and in the United States of America. Wilson
says, “This noted and formidable owl is found in almost
every quarter of the United States. His favourite residence
is in dark solitudes of deep swamps ; here, as soon as evening
draws on, and mankind retire to rest, he sends forth such
sounds as seem scarcely to belong to this world, startling
the solitary pilgrim as he slumbers by his forest fire, ‘making
night hideous.’ Along the mountainous shores of the Ohio,
and among the deep forests of Indiana, alone, and reposing