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time, and there is good reason to believe that the juniors are 

 hatched out by the warmth of their elder brethren." 



In the advance of civilization, an appeal of another nature 

 than against superstition and prejudice has become necessary 

 on behalf of the Barn Owl, and this is dealt with by Lilford, 

 who protests against the barbarity of massacring Owls for sale 

 and manufacture into fire-screens and plumes for ladies' hats. 



Let me second this by quoting the words of one who writes 

 from a broader standpoint than that of the lover of birds alone, 

 words which from their depth of feeling must appeal to all 

 thinking people, the words of Lecky in his "Map of Life " : — 

 " It is melancholy to observe," says he, " how often sensitive 

 women who object to field sports and who denounce all 

 experiments on living animals will be found supporting with 

 perfect callousness fashions that are leading to the wholesale 

 destruction of some of the most beautiful species of birds, and are 

 in some cases dependent upon acts of very aggravated cruelty." 



The Kuran realizes the following ideal: — " There is no beast 

 on earth, nor bird which flieth with its wings, but the same is 

 a people like unto you — unto the Lord shall they return." 



Anyone to whom this in the least appeals, is not likely to 

 be guilty of wantonly sacrificing the life of the meanest fellow 

 creature, still less of so interesting and useful a companion to 

 man as this Owl. 



Family BUBONID.E 

 ASIO BRACHYOTUS (Foistei) 



La Grande ChOUette, Brisson, Omithologie, i, p. 511, 1/60. 



La Chouette, La Grande Cliev§clie, Buff on, Hist. Nat. Ois., i, 



p. 296, pi. ccccxxxviii, 1770. 

 Strix brachyotOS, Forster, PhUosoph. Trans., Ixii, p. 384, 1772. 

 OtUS brachyotUS, D'Orhigmj, Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois., p. 13-i, 1835; 



Abbott, Ibis, p. 152, 1861; JDurnford, Ibis, p. 396, 1878; Oustalet, Miss. 



Sci. Cap Horn, Ois., p. 42, 1891. 

 Strix brachyotns, Gould, Birds of Eitrope, i, pi. si, 1836. 



