ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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LONG-EARED OWL. 



found favor with the milliner and in a day in one of our large 

 cities, we may count a hundred bedraggled Barn Owls on women's 

 hats — all staring out of glassy yellow eyes, as unlike the dark 

 brown eyes of the living birds, as the feathered masses are like 

 caricatures of the beauty of the birds in their native haunts ! 



GROUP TL— LONG-EARED and SHORT-EARED OWLS, AsiO. 



These two birds are closely associated structurally and their 

 genus is quite sharply defined. 



