PREDATORY BIRDS 



The Great Horned Owl 



The great horned owl is of interest to the 

 sportsman merely by reason of the depredations 

 which some members of this tribe commit on 

 small game. Where not forced by a scarcity of 

 small game to subsist on mice, etc., this owl lives 

 almost exclusively on rabbits and birds. The 

 writer remembers an instance where one specimen 

 killed every beaver kid and muskrat on a creek 

 several miles along its course. The owl's tracks 

 are very rarely seen, but from the undigested 

 refuse which he ejects through his mouth (for he 

 swallows all his prey, hair, bones, etc., when 

 feeding) frequently found thickly strewn under 

 his favorite roosting trees (usually densely 

 branched), it can readily be ascertained what the 

 light-shy fellow lives on, and if he proves io be 

 an outlaw, his death will benefit the hunting 

 ground. 



