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USEFIU. BIRDS 



THE SNOWY OWL AND GREAT HORNED OWL. 





Snowy Owl. After Fuertes. 



As supplementing- a plea in behalf of birds of prey as a class, 

 we introduce here figures and brief notes of two of our owls. The 

 first-named, to be sure, is not a common bird in Minnesota. When 

 seen, it is generally in the winter season, at which time we have 

 occasionally observed it in the bare fields. Our field notes, how- 

 ever, show that this Ifird was met with occasionally in Otter Tail 

 County in October and November, some years ago. It is, however, 

 distinctly a boreal bird, pushing" its migrations southerly only in. 

 its search for food. 



