Some Owls in My Aviaries. 
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ignavus should be capable of tackling an ostrich. I have seen 
a good many of the American Eagle Owls, and have both taken 
its eggs and captured the bird alive, but have never shot it. 
riUliougli I liave bad plenty of opportunities of doing so, and 
have been asked more than once to destroy a particularly des- 
iruftive pair. As a matter of fact around homesteads they do a 
good deal of damage to the poultry, and I have known them 
carry off an Aylesbury duck weighing six or seven pounds. My 
birds are the southern form and came from the Falkland Islands. 
They only differ, as far as I can see, in the lighter colouration 
Photo by W. Shore Baily. 
African Spotted Eagle Owl {B. maculosa). 
of their plumage, which is more grey and not so brown as the 
common northern forms. With their large ear-tufts they are 
attractive looking birds in their lofty aviary, and are 
quiet and docile. So far, and I have had them over six 
pionths, I have not yet heard their call, neither have they looked 
