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A BROWN-EYED WESTERNER ENTERTAINS WtNTER VISITORS FROM TITE NORTH 

 Lazy sleepyhead is the saw-whet owl, clutching a rodent. It often places its nest in an old 

 woodpecker hole or tree hollow. At night its rasping cry sounds like a saw being filed. Eskimos 

 call Richardson's owl (right) " the blind one," since it may often be caught by hand in daylight. 

 Its musical cry is like water dripping from heights. Good mousers, both birds inhabit 

 northern North America. At the moment they are guests of the little-known flammulated 

 screech owd (bottom), whose home is in mountain regions o.f the West. 



