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servation, I am satisfied that our bird feeds entirely on tlie 

 smaller species of quadrupeds, for I have never found any 

 portions of birds about their nests, nor even the remains of 

 a single feather in the pellets which they regurgitate, and 

 which are always formed of the bones and hair of quadru- 

 peds." 





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Fig. 4. Adult Screech Owl. 



" The Barred Owl," he says, " is a great destroyer of 

 poultry, particularly of chickens when half-grown. It also 

 secures mice, young hares, rabbits, and many species of small 

 birds, but is especially fond of a kind of a frog of a brown 

 colour, very common in the woods of Lousiana." So far as 

 this report goes, the sportsman has nothing in particular to 



