Crossword-Solution: ASIO 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

But he is an honest bird, notwithstanding his late hours and his idle sleeping days; he is also domestic in his habits, and the father of an interesting family, close at hand, in a hollow white-birch, and he is ever ready to give them his support and protection." The Mottled Owl, (_Strix Asio_) or Screech Owl, is somewhat larger than the Acadian or Whetsaw, and not so familiar as the Barn Owl of Europe, though resembling it in general habits.

THE SCREECH-OWL Asio! Nictea! Nyctalis! [_Three more pairs of eyes have opened._] Brachyotus! [_No eye opening at the name, he repeats._] Brachyotus! ONE OF THE NIGHT-BIRDS He will be here directly.

Their stay in Asisi was short, and, being sunrise-and-mountain-top people, they made their call at six o'clock in the morning on their way to the top of Mount Asio, from which Asisi takes its name, and, I may here add, the correct spelling of its name, which I have followed.

Viendose Moro con ella, A penas los ojos alça; Zelinda le asio la mano, Un poco roxa y turbada; Y al fin de infinitas guexas Que en tales passes se passan, Vistio se las ricas presas Con las manos de su dama, etc.

Many times the birds were so persecuted that they finally left their young to the mercies of the pigeoners; and even when they remained, most of the young were killed and sent to the market, and the hosts of the adults were decimated." LITTLE SOLOMON OTUS _Otus asio_, the Screech Owl, are the scientific and common names of our little friend Solomon.