A brown owl, its feathers pulled around its torso like a cloak.

Then the long-drawn wail of the brown owl drove them below in haste.

The barn owl and brown owl both stay with us.

There stood a tiny midget, no taller than a hand's breadth, struggling with a brown owl.

It was a sleek brown owl, much smaller than Nobby, with a sternly pointed head and huge amber eyes.

I once turned out a dozen water-hens, a brown owl, a woodcock, and a water-rail from one little withe patch.

The little brown owl - introduced from Germany in the early 1900s, it's not a very common sight in New Zealand.

He reached the sheaf-pile only just in time, for the brown owl was still abroad, quartering the field with deadly certainty of purpose.

Here on many a night I have listened to the sibilant screech of the white owl and the brown owl's clear, long-drawn, quavering lamentation:

It was a brown owl, but Mr. Thaxter says that there are beautiful white owls, which spend the winter here, and feed upon rats.

He says that hawk and bittern were tried, and that their zeal broke down over an old brown owl, "which was indescribable."

He had been but a few minutes at this engrossing occupation when from the door of a nearby burrow popped suddenly a small brown owl.

The Brown Owl considered for a moment and everyone waited in silence.

When brown owls hoot their throats swell as big as an hen's egg.

Here the Brown Owl bustled in, carrying a little note-book.

Can he never be human again, Lady Brown Owl?