Owls 



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Most of the stories, as they have come down to us through 

 the generations, have arisen among the farmers in those sec- 

 tions of the country where such barn-yard fowls as turkeys 

 and chickens, not having been supphed with shelter, have 



Fi:|. 2. Subadult Barred Owl. 



habitually roosted in the trees and elsewhere outside the 

 barns and outbuildings. Where this has been the case on 

 farms, where the Great-horned owl is more or less common 



