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it by the sound one of the opposite side, when as quick as a flash 

 it had all eight of its claws sharp as needles, too plunged 



FIG. 60. THE LONG-EARED OWL (Asio wllsonianus). 



Subadult. Same specimen as shown in Figure 56. Photographed from life (one-half size), by the 



Author. 



into my nearly frozen and naked hands. There was a lively 

 tussle before that owl and myself, together with the gun, and 



