The snowy owl 



grine falcon and the barn-owl should play so slight 

 a part in our New World life. The barn-owl, at 

 least, deserves recognition and protection. Some 

 years ago a colony of barn-owls lived in the Smith- 

 sonian tower in Washington, entering and leaving 

 by a broken window. Somebody mended this 

 window, thus killing all the owls inside and driving 

 away all who were outside at the time. A careful 



