If the scops and screech owl clade indeed originated in the Old World, the Flammulated Owl's ancestors either colonized the Americas independently from but at about the same time and from much the same stock as the screech owls ', or they diverged immediately after the latter had settled in the New World.

If a night owl and mortal dared to respond to the awful voice of Mala Vision with another cry, this immediately, no runs, but goes to his answering machine, if the passer again answer his cry a second time, she approaches her screaming, and if the traveler repeated a third time answering the same cry, the spirit of the evening is zigzag, devours the victim's skull with his teeth and sucks your brain, which it feeds.

If opa ( a common owl ) perched in a barn or on trees near the house and hooted, it foreboded death among the near relatives.

If another stuffed owl is introduced ( or the same one removed and re-introduced ), the birds react to it again as though it were a predator, demonstrating that it is only a very specific stimulus that is habituated to ( namely, one particular unmoving owl in one place ).

If everything has been correctly prepared, the owl colony will move over to the new site in the course of a few nights at most.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John passage “ You heard me say, ‘ I am going away and I am coming back to you .’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

Captain Manning was heard to scream, " If any of those bastard Huns come up, lads, hit ' em with an oar!

If in spite of all his advice someone persisted in making idols, he would have them punished by the Patingatis ( Parava headsman ) by exile .... One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burnt down as a warning to others.

If morning rush traffic can be heard from outside, if researchers or maintenance staff appear at the same time each day, an experiment can be ruined by masking.

If you are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it three times.

If I had heard him talk, only two days ago, I wouldn't dare hint at such a thing.

If the story is true that troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( about 1150-1207 ) wrote the famous Provençal song Kalenda Maya to fit the tune of an estampie that he heard two jongleurs play, then the history of the estampie extends back to the 12th century.

When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".

If the parameter " dopefish " is added to the executable, a sample of burping is heard and Scott's Mystical Head is seen spinning in circles on the screen.

If on the other hand, they lose, remember, you heard it here first.

If a sound absorbing sheet is slid in between the prongs of a vibrating fork, reducing the waves reaching the ear from one prong, the volume heard will actually increase, due to a reduction of this cancellation.

Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.

If the signals are close but not exactly on the same frequency the mix will not only include the audio from both carriers but depending on the carrier separation a whistle might be heard as well representing the difference in the carrier frequencies.

On May 8, 2006, Robertson said, " If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms.

** April 20 – Cicero, in Rome, writes to Varro " If our voices are no longer heard in the Senate and in the Forum, let us follow the example of the ancient sages and serve our country through our writings, concentrating on questions of ethics and constitutional law.

*" If this had been an actual emergency, the Attention Signal you just heard would have been followed by official information, news or instructions.

' If I had released a ballad I don't think you would have heard of Elvis Presley.

If the player steps forward and turns left, Klaymen will face the castle and if the player clicks on the castle, Klogg can be heard laughing.

If investing is your pleasure, you may have heard of Mark Spitznagel, who manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.

Gorman owned the land on which the bill's sponsors wanted to build the new capitol building, and at one point had been heard saying, " If the capitol remains in Saint Paul, the territory is worth millions and I have nothing.

If Karo indulged in mystical visions, and, half dreaming, thought he heard heavenly voices in his soul, they served always as reminders to him that his life, his actions, and his accomplishments must surpass those of other people ( ib.

If you speak of pianists, the most complete pianist that we have known and possibly will know, from what I ’ ve heard to date, is Art Tatum.