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Meanings of brown owl in English

We have no meanings for "brown owl" in our records yet.
Usage of brown owl in English
1
A brown owl, its feathers pulled around its torso like a cloak.
The lovers
2
Then the long-drawn wail of the brown owl drove them below in haste.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
3
The barn owl and brown owl both stay with us.
The Naturalist on the Thames
4
There stood a tiny midget, no taller than a hand's breadth, struggling with a brown owl.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
5
It was a sleek brown owl, much smaller than Nobby, with a sternly pointed head and huge amber eyes.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
6
I once turned out a dozen water-hens, a brown owl, a woodcock, and a water-rail from one little withe patch.
The Naturalist on the Thames
7
The little brown owl - introduced from Germany in the early 1900s, it's not a very common sight in New Zealand.
Radio NZ
8
He reached the sheaf-pile only just in time, for the brown owl was still abroad, quartering the field with deadly certainty of purpose.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character
9
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:
Afoot in England
10
It was a brown owl, but Mr. Thaxter says that there are beautiful white owls, which spend the winter here, and feed upon rats.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
11
He says that hawk and bittern were tried, and that their zeal broke down over an old brown owl, "which was indescribable."
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
12
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.
Children of the Wild
13
The Brown Owl considered for a moment and everyone waited in silence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03
14
When brown owls hoot their throats swell as big as an hen's egg.
The Natural History of Selborne
15
Here the Brown Owl bustled in, carrying a little note-book.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03
16
Can he never be human again, Lady Brown Owl?
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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