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nest, in which I found ten; but these were 
laid by two females who sat together on 
the same nest in perfect harmony. Incu- 
bation was difficult to determine, but I 
cannot make it out to be more than twenty- 
one days. If any of your readers would 
be kind enough to give me the exact time 
it would be gratefully received. No owl 
is more interesting to watch. Take some 
dark, cloudy day in May or June, repair to 
their haunts and they will be found lightly 
skimming over the surface of the ground 
seeking for food left by the receding tide, 
or again diligently searching the immediate 
upland for any unwary mouse. Or watch 
them again in the deepening twilight, as 
silently, without a single note, they flit 
past, seeming but a passing thought or 
fanciful vision, until you hear from the 
shore the shrill cry of a Tem or Sandpiper 
in his talons; then you awaken to the fact 
that it is a rapacious bird acting well its 
part in nature’s great drama, “The Survi- 
val of the Fittest.” — F. H. Carpenter , 
Behobeth , Mass. Q.&O. Vlll. Nov. 1883 . p. %y 
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