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June, 1921. 
BIRD NOTES: 
. — THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB 
Some Owls in My Aviaries. 
By W. Shore Baily. 
To keepers of Birds of Prey this time of the year is always 
rather a dif?icult one in the matter of food supplies. In the 
first place, if these are obtained from the local butcher, they 
generally arrive in rather a smelly condition, and are difficult to 
keep long, without becoming a crawling mass of maggots ; and 
if, on the other hand, they are obtained from wild life, matters 
are still worse, as the rats, the most useful form at any rate of 
nw 1 food, have left the buildings, where they usually swarm, for 
the fields and countryside, where they are difficult to capture; 
and birds which in the winter and shooting season form no 
small source of supply are now nesting, and one hates to destroy 
them at this time, even if they belong to the, so called, noxious 
species. 
In my aviaries I now have five difJerent varieties of Owls : • 
Pairs of : 
Bengal Eagle Owl (Bubo bengalensis). 
African Spotted Eagle Owl (B. maculosus). 
Falkland Island Eagle Owl (5. virginianus falkland islandii) 
Also a single specimen of European Eagle Owl (B. ignavus) 
This last named bird is, I believe, a hen, and is a magnifi- 
cent specimen; it easily dwarfs all the others in size. It was a 
mascot on one of the warships stationed in Russia during the 
war, and has evidently been used to being handled. In spite 
of this it is rather a timid bird. 
