VARIOUS PARASITIC PLANTS; WITH AN OWL STORY 



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the Bird House in the National "Zoo" at Washington, down upon its perch, and allows its 

 and which has a very interesting history. At this writ- to hang way down below it, for a 

 ing he is full grown, and in very beautiful plumage, while least ten inches or more. There are 

 at the time of 

 his capture he 

 was in the pure 

 white, downy 

 stage of the 

 young of this 

 species, a n d, 

 like most 

 young owls, a 

 most remark- 

 able-1 o o k i ng 

 bird. It was at 

 this stage of 

 his growth 

 that I penned 

 an account of 

 h i s capture, 

 and published 

 it in a popular 

 journal in New 

 England some- 

 where. That 

 story was il- 

 lustrated, in so 

 far as this par- 

 t i c u 1 a r owl 

 was concerned, 

 by a reproduc- 

 tion of a pho- 

 t o g r a p h I 

 made of it, 

 which showed 

 the attitude it 

 assumed when 

 asleep. This 

 attitude is most 

 e xtraordinary, 



■' Fig. 9— NESTLING OF THE BARRED OWL (Strix v. varia), A WELL KNOWN SPECIES OF THIS 



as it s n u a t s country, although now fully grown, this bird receives both room and board 



^ free from the government at the national zoological park at WASHINGTON. 



head and neck 

 distance of at 

 those who will 

 be interested 

 to know what 

 this Barred 

 Owl looked 

 like when it 

 first left the 

 liollow in the 

 tree that its 

 parents had 

 selected as a 

 nesting place. 

 This I secured 

 a few days 

 after it came 

 into my pos- 

 session, and a 

 r e p r oduction 

 of the photo- 

 'j, r a p h illus- 

 trates this 

 brief biogra- 

 ]>hy. 



It will be of 

 interest to 

 know that of 

 the large num- 

 ber of species 

 of owls we 

 have in this 

 country, that 

 in the case of 

 the o w 1 1 e t s 

 their first 

 ]ihunage is al- 

 m o s t invari- 

 ably white and 

 downy as in 

 the case of this 

 young Barred 

 Owl. 



CRATER LAKE SHELL HOLE 



/CRATER LAKE was recently most aptly described 

 ^^ by Representative Sinnot, of Oregon, when speaking 

 from the floor of the House as follows : 



"Crater Lake, cauldron-like and circular, 7,000 feet 

 high, is perched amid the peaks. Perpendicular sides of 

 slaggy lava rise over a thousand feet from waters of 

 indigo blue six miles across and 2,000 feet deep. 



"To the scientist, a mighty volcano collapsed within 

 itself. Mount Mazama, 15,000 feet high, telescoped. 



"To the poet, 'the sea of silence,' 'a lake of mystery.' 



"To me, a shell hole of a war of worlds — who knows? 



"Could the great blind poet have seen this marvel ere 

 his pen had Lucifer and his host of rebel angels — 



Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, 

 With hideous ruin and combustion, down — 



in Miltonic imagery here he'd have found the impact." 



/^ OPIES of the Roster of American Foresters and 

 ^-^ Lumbermen in Military Service — final publication — 

 are available on request. This is a reprint from the 

 November issue of American Forestry, containing ad- 

 ditions and changes received up to November 15, 1918. 

 Address American Forestry Association, Washington, 

 District of Columbia. 



