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Pictures of Bird Life 



tlic >\^)()(k'()C'k-()\v], ;uid in Norfolk as the INhirsli- (or INlash-) 

 owl. It c\cii nests on the oround aniono- sed(>"es and eoarse 

 orass. but is now better known and more eoninion as a 

 winter visitor than a resident breeding speeies. However, 

 whenever tlie eountry is devastated by a plague of voles — 



Bray taking Birds out ok Flight-net. 



sueh as took jilaee in Seotland in 1898 — tlie Short-eared 

 Owls rtoek to tlie infected s})ot and do good serxice, as is 

 shown by tlie report of the Committee appointed l)y the 

 Board of Agriculture, published in the Zofj/o^^isf for ^April. 

 1893 :— 



" In consequence of the vast multiplication of their 



