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Bird-Land Echoes. 



but this is not always the one presented to us, nor 

 indeed often the visible one, and the rambler who 

 takes a quiet stroll in the fields at even-tide, or 

 wanders farther aw^ay in the moonlight, will be af- 

 forded no end of entertainment from owls both large 

 and small, if, happily, that pest in many a community, 

 the taxidermist, has not exterminated these emi- 



Long-eared Owl. 



nently useful birds for the purpose of adorning bar- 

 rooms and barber shops. 



I have seen nine species of owls either on my farm 

 or within easy walking distance of it ; two of these 

 — the sno^\y and the haw^k-owl — but once, though 

 the former have been frequently killed along our 

 Jersey coast and inland. That I found the hawk- 



