52 WHITE OWL 



growth may be fed and fostered at one and the same time, 

 the successive broods coming on impari passu. 



There is no proof that the Barn Owl does any harm to 

 the eggs or birds in the dove-cotes in which it often breeds. 

 Mr. Seebohm records twenty dead rats in one nest, all fresh 

 killed, and yet he says the stupid farmer or gamekeeper will 

 slay the bird if he can, and nail his body against the barn 

 door, under the delusion that he will eat his pigeons. 



