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The ground owl! is a queer bird. She does not 
select a swinging branch or a crotch of a tree for her 
babies; but she takes possession of a ground squirrel’s 
hole and lays her eggs there. So you see it is rather a 
bed than a cradle. If you are in luck, you will find 
the nest of the ground owl in the ground from four to 
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GROUND OWL. 
twenty feet away from the hole or doorway. It may 
not be more than a few inches under the surface of the 
ground, but it is hard to know just where to strike it. 
When a merry schoolboy gets a spade and flings his 
jacket off and begins in good earnest to dig out a 
ground owl, take our word for it, he has a good piece 
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