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a bank or rock as he is likely to be 

 any where any time and not the least 

 frightened of mankind. My last set 

 of Screech Owls was found in a hollow 

 tree about ten feet from the ground. 

 The set consisted of four round eggs 

 of a dirty white color. Mr. Barn Owl 

 is next on the i)rogram; and he may 

 be called Barn Owl, but I have found 

 him inhabiting large holes in banks. 

 I crawled in a large hole in search of 

 Owl eggs and saw a Golden colored 

 Owl setting way back in the hole. I 

 punched her with a stick and she 

 came at me, because that was the only 

 way she had of escaping. I caught 

 her quickly but let her loose when she 

 plunged her claws in my arm, but she 

 had me and I could not get her off. I 

 finally got her feet tied with a hand- 

 kerchief. I caged her for study pur- 

 poses. I have also caught Barred 

 Owls, Screech Owls, and Burrowing 

 Owls all in their respective nests. I 

 find that the Short-eared Owls occupy 

 mostly dark holes and caves. 



Ramon Graham. 

 F'ort Worth, Tex. 



Series of eggs of the great Horned 

 Owl. 



Though my series of these eggs is 

 small, I am very proud of same, for 

 they are not i)lentiful here, and best of 

 all I collected them myself and pre- 

 liared them in Al style; the whole lot 

 being blown through exceedingly small 

 holes and thoroughly cleansed. All 

 sets are complete and with full data 



April 10, 1S97, T found a nest of the 

 Great Horned Owl, containing young 

 Owls, three in number at least five or 

 six weeks old. I determined to do 

 better the next time. 



Great Horned Owl, three eggs, pure 

 white, little gloss; form between thick 

 eliptical and oval: measure 2.28x1.80, 

 2.22 X 1.78, 2 22 x 1.78 inches: very 

 slightly incubated. Nest an old 

 Hawk's nest of sticks, up fifty-three 



feet, in a Poplar Tree, in a large piece 

 of timber well retired. Locality, Col- 

 umbus, Co., four and one-half miles S. 

 W. of Columbus, Wis., date Feb. 18, 

 1898. 



Great Horned Owl, three eggs, i)ure 

 white, slightly glossed; form thick 

 oval; measure 2.28x1.78, 2.2.5x1.80, 

 2.28x1.80 inches; incubation fresh. 

 Nest in an old Hawk's nest in a Poplar 

 fifty feet up, near public road, date 

 March 21, 1898, locality Columbia Co., 

 four miles S. W. of Columbus, Wis. 

 This I think was the second laying of 

 the same pair I robbed F'eb. 18. Some 

 boys had shot the old female this day 

 and the crows had punctured two of 

 the eggs. 



Great Horned Owl, two eggs, pure 

 white, and showing little gloss; form 

 thick oval; measure 2.22x1.75, 2.24 x 

 1.78 inches: incubation advanced. 

 Nest an old one up about thirty feet 

 in the forks of a limb of a Burr Oak, 

 not far from a road, in a grove. Date 

 March 21, 1899, locality, Columbia Co., 

 Columbus, Wis., (9 miles W.) 



Great Horned Owl, two eggs, pure 

 white with little gloss: form thick 

 oval: measure 2.2.5x1.80, 2.25x1.86 

 inches, incubation slight: The same 

 nest from which I collected the set in 

 Feb., 1898. Date March 3, 1902, local- 

 ity, Columbia Co , four and one half 

 miles S. W. of Columbus, Wis. 



Great Horned Owl, two eggs i)ure 

 dull, glossy white; form thick oval; 

 measure 2.18x1.77, 2.22x1.73 inches; 

 incubation slight. Nest the same as I 

 took sets from in 1898 and 1902. Date, 

 February 28, 1903; locality Columbia 

 Co., four and one-half miles S. W. of 

 Columbus, Wis. 



George W. H. vos Burgh, 



Zion City, Illinois. 



A Freak. 

 I have an egg that is quite a curi- 

 osity to me, A friend of mine shot a 



