ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. hele 
LONG-EARED OWL. 
found favor with the milliner and in a day in one of our large 
cities, we may count a hundred bedraggled Barn Owls on women’s 
hats—all staring out of glassy yellow eyes, as wnlike the dark 
brown eyes of the living birds, as the feathered masses are like 
caricatures of the beauty of the birds in their native haunts! 
GROUP IIl.—LONG-EARED and SHORT-EARED OWLS, Asio. 
These two birds are closely associated structurally and their 
genus is quite sharply defined. 
