The Long-eared Owl 
that low crooning note, tender and mellow, and, above all, piano, as it 
was repeated simply and monotonously at intervals of four or five seconds 
all night long. The same note is used, also, to admonish the babes or to 
encourage them before the presence of that dread monster, man. 
Taken in San Luis Obispo County Photo by the Author 
THE SKIRT DANCE 
THE MENACE AT ITS UTMOST HEIGHT 
Then, besides the cat-fight noises, already mentioned, and which 
constitute a separate cataclysm of sound, there is the regular note of 
disapproval, a sort of groaning execration used chiefly by the male, 
Morach moraaaoow , werek werek wraaow, zvreek wraaa —all very “flat” 
and very emphatic. 
A fourth note is so unusual, or at least so little understood, as to 
have escaped general comment. 1 In May, 1907, when our party was 
camped on the Walla Walla River, in Washington, I first made its ac¬ 
quaintance. I was seated at the time in a willow tree, at a height of 
twelve or fifteen feet from the ground, beside a nest of young Long-eared 
Owls, one of a line of four nests which 1 had been watching for several 
1 See the author’s article in point. Condor. Vol. XVI., March. 1914. 
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