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hold the Barred owl up for, and in these days they probably 

 do not kill as many young chickens as they did when Audu- 

 bon lived, and whose observations, by the way, were largely 

 confined to Louisiana, where, so far as my experience car- 



Fig. 5. Young Screech O^YL 



ries me- — and I've kept chickens in Louisiana — there is a 

 flightless, featherless, black owl that will get away with more 

 chickens in one night than a whole family of Barred owls 

 will in the course of two or three months. 



