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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 Owl— 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 136-2r): 



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 — ^TV^hat Audubon 

 Learned — He Hunts Methodically — Why Do They Do 

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



