The Spotted Owl 



Taken in Los Angeles County 

 From a photograph. Copyright 1021, 



by Wright M. Pierce 

 "WE VOTE HIM HANDSOME" 



grown young. The sit- 

 uation was an old 

 Raven's nest, placed 65 

 feet up in a pothole, on 

 a perpendicular cliff of 

 conglomerate over 200 

 feet high. Fortunately 

 the nesting-site was 

 commanded by trees, 

 and the old birds were 

 very accommodating, as 

 our accompanying illus- 

 trations show. Indeed, 

 the behavior of the old 

 birds throughout the 

 period of Mr. Dickey's 

 study was a compound 

 of fearlessness, con- 

 fidence, and placid 



1 Condor, Vol. XVI., Sept., 1914, 

 pp. 193-202. 



this nest a set of two eggs was secured 

 April 1, 1909, and a set of three, with 

 the parent birds, March 30, 1910. 

 On the 15th of May, 1913, Mr. 

 Donald R. Dickey 1 with two assist- 

 ants, working in the mountains of 

 Ventura County, found a Spotted 

 Owl's nest which contained two well- 



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Taken in Ventura County Photo by Dickey 



A FEATHER-BED BABY 



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