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On the evidence available I am convinced thai the Barred 

 Owl docs far more harm than good, thai il clearly belongs in 

 the class of intolerable bird pests and therefore should be 

 destroyed. 



The Barred Owl is next in size to the greal horned owl. 

 It is from L 2() to 2 L 2 inches long, heavy bodied, round headed 



Photograph and copyright, \'.m->, l>y W. L. Underw I. 



BARBED oWl.s. 



and quite without "horns," or "cars." Its head, neck and 

 breast are marked by main- black horizontal bars on a gray 

 or creamy-white ground, and the breast and abdomen have a 

 few thick, perpendicular bars. Many times a big Barred Owl 

 of my acquaintance has exclaimed to me through the darkness, 

 in a fearfully hollow and sepulchral voice: 'Who! - ' Who- 

 who-who-who-w/W-WHo? Ah!" 1 1 Is like the war-cry of an 

 angry ghost. 



This bird ranges throughout the eastern half of the United 

 Stales, and westward almost to the Rockv Mountains: and 



