text:  We regret therefore to find that Mr Waterton to whom we owe the introduction of the Civetta in England and who in the first series of his Essays has eloquently vindicated the character of the barn-owl against the aspersions alike of the poets of the Augustan age and the old women of the present day still denies the accomplishment of hooting to the Yorkshire barn-owls and persists in considering it restricted to the single individual shot by Sir William Jardine