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Young— Protect the Sparrow Hawk— What Other 

 Writers Have Observed— Grasshoppers a Favorite 

 Food— Feed Mainly on Mice and Insects— Fish Hawk — 

 The Nest and Eggs— A Good Fisherman— They Live on 

 Fish— The Owls — Mice Devouring Species — The Barred 

 or "Rain" Owl— Prefer to Kill Their Own Food— Barn 

 Owl— The Nest and Eggs— Feeds on Mice — Short Eared 

 Owl— Killed to Satisfy Vanity— They Devour Legions 

 of Noxious Rodents— Long-Eared Owl— Desirable Visi- 

 tors—The Nest and Eggs— A Beneficial Species— What 

 Different Writers say of its Food — Barred Owl— The 

 Nest and Eggs — Mice and Small Game — Feeds on 

 Fishes— Great Gray Owl— Its Dietary— Acadian Owl- 

 Hides in Rocky Places— The Nest and Eggs— They 

 Lived In Harmony — ^Screech Ot\'1 — AS a Pet — 'Facts 

 About its Habits— Fixing Breeding Places for Owls- 

 Eats Beetles and Grasshoppers— Kills the Feathered 

 Prize-Fighters- Great Horned Owl— The Nest and 

 Eggs— Its Flight and Weird Notes— What They Live 

 Upon— Snowy Owl— Its Manner of Hunting— Hawk 

 Owl— Its Food and Habits, pages 136-252 



CHAPTER IV. 



SOME OTHER BIRDS. 



The Raven— A Wary Poultry Thief— They Destroy Eggs 

 and Nestlings — Capture Rabbits and Grouse — ^Will 

 Speak as they Pass by — Attack Lambs and Fawns^ 

 Ravens a Quarter of a Century Ago— Would Attack the 

 Deer — Reliable Informants^Are Enemies of Small 

 Birds— They Consume Many Insects— Eat Berries. 

 Nuts, Frogs and Snakes — They Sometimes Prefer 

 Carrion— The Fish Crow— The Common Crow— What the 

 Crow is Charged with— Results of Critical Analyses- 

 Do Trivial Damage to Fruit — Devour Legions of Bee- 

 tles and Grasshoppers — The Crow Destroys Army 

 Worms — Crows and Blackbirds — Farmers Praised 

 Them— Some Bad Habits— They Eat Grubs and 

 "Bugs" — Sometimes Steal the Corn — They Devour Eggs 

 and Nestlings— The Jays— The Blue Jay— Distribution— 

 Sometimes Seen in Flocks— Its Economic Relations- 

 Mr. Beale's Summary of its Food — ^WTiat Audubon 

 Learned— He Hunts Methodically— Why Do They Do 

 This?— They Know Their Enemies— Is Mr. Jay a 



