ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



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YOU.NG GRfclAT HOK.NED OWLS. 

 From a photograph by T. H. Jackson. 



with all owls it snaps its beak in defiance. To an old deserted 

 crow or squirrel nest, high in a pine or hemlock tree, the 

 Long-Eared Owl carries a little grass for lining, and here lays 

 three to six eggs. From beneath, the nest looks like a hundred 

 other deserted nests in the neighboring woods. Rarely this owl 

 will build for itself. 



This is another bird valuable to man. since in one hundred and 

 seven stomachs examined, no less than eighty-four contained mice, 

 while sixteen showed birds ; five, shrews : and one, insects, the 

 remainder being empty. 



For some reason both this and the following species are ex- 



