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almost as much by the first-born as by the parents 
themselves. 
CONCERNING the diet of the Short-eared Owl, first 
cousin to the preceding, Prévost-Paradol has the 
following remarks :— 
‘‘ January, mice ; February, harvest-mice ; March, 
The Short-eared Owl. 
mice; April, crickets and field-mice; May, shrew- 
mice and cockchafers; June, beetles; July, field- 
mice and birds; August, field-mice and shrews ; 
September, field-mice and beetles ; October, the 
