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I find that the Gr&J^Homed Owl besides eating hares, 
skunks, cats, muskrats, crows and so forth, as everybody knows, « c 
casionally catches ducks, mink and Barred Owls. Louis Kitchm, 
the noted half-breed guide, and an old friend of mine, a f e " years 
since saw one carrying something m its claws. After following 
it some distance he shot it and found its burden to be the skel- 
eton of a Barred Owl nearly cleared of the flesh. I have shot 
one with a full grown rabbit m its claws and twice have seen o n e 
seize a rabbit near by me. I also shot a ball through a large 
■-part ridge which an owl held m its claws, but the owl escaped. 1 
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large nones never could have been ejected. How the bird can get 
rid of such a mass I am at loss to imagine. Mr. C. E. Aiken 
once told me that he^krrew- one of these owls ^ seizsya long beard- 
ed man by the face. I have known of several such instances. In 
1859 while lying out rolled m a blanket at the head watery of 
the St John I was suddenly awakened by having my head roughyly 
seized and raised from the round. On getting rairly awake I 
found that I had been seized by an owl which had set all his 
claws deep into the sides of my head. Probably my. hate must have 
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