RAPTORES : OWLS. 



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yards and make havoc among the poultry. And the 

 Snowy Owl captures ducks and other birds upon the 

 wing, striking them much after the manner of a falcon. 



FIG. 214. 



Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, Bonaparte. 



The tremulous and doleful notes of the little Mottled 

 or Screech Owl, the prolonged and painful cry of the 

 Long-eared Owl, the grating noise of the little Acadian 

 or Saw-whet Owl, are sounds most unwelcome to him 

 who has not yet learned the harmless nature of the beings 

 from which they come. 



Most kinds of owls spend the day in the thick forests, 

 among the thick foliage, and not unfrequently in a hol- 

 low tree. The little BuiTowino- Owl of the High Central 



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