Richardson's Owl 



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BY P. B. PEABODY 



With photographs from nature by the author 



N the thirteenth of April last, at Hallock, Minn., 

 while afield in the morning after Migration Re- 

 port data, I stumbled suddenly upon a Richard- 

 son's Owl, in a willow bush, four feet up, on a 

 brush-land side-hill, two hundred yards above the 

 river. A strong wind was blowing, and kept the 

 willow stems a-swa^ing and the feathers fluttering, 

 the dullness of an overcast sky made quick exposures impos- 

 Nevertheless, I hurried home, a mile away, and returned 

 camera and plates, — 'Crown' and 'Stanley.' The bird was 



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Richardson's owl 



still /// si'/u, and leaning, as before, against the upright stem near- 

 est him, as a brace against the wind. With stop i6, or a little 

 larger, and time i to ^ second, both according to the conditions of wind 

 and sky, eight exposures were made, beginning at five feet distance^ 



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