ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 173 
YOUNG GREAT HORNED OWLS. 
From a photograph by T. H,. Jackson, 
with all owls it snaps its beak in defiance. To an old deserted 
crow or squirrel nest, high in a pine or hemlock tree, the 
Long-Eared Owl carries a little grass for lining, and here lays 
three to six eggs. From beneath, the nest looks like a hundred 
other deserted nests in the neighboring woods. Rarely this owl 
will build for itself. 
This is another bird valuable to man, since in one hundred and 
seven stomachs examined, no less than eighty-four contained mice, 
while sixteen showed birds; five, shrews; and one, insects, the 
remainder being empty. 
For some reason both this and the following species are ex- 
