The moment he showed himself in the open, he was 
discovered by a Crov/ v;hose excited cawing brought others of 
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his kind from every direction until ^vithin the next few minutes 
a. dozen or more e-SsemDleo. s,nd moohed the Owl efter their usus,l 
fa.shion. 
I wonder why the Cro?/s do not mob the young Owls. 
They must certainly be av;are of their presence. The rabbit 
skin still lay by their side but it looked much smaller than 
it did yesterday a.nd I think they have devoured part of it. 
1898 
Tn the afternoon sailed down stream to Lawrence*s 
woods, taking my 5 x 7 cajnerq, and exposing a dozen plates on 
the young G-reat Horned Ov;ls. When I first came in sight of 
them they were standing up a yard of more apavrt and a little 
distance from the tree. One of them repeatedly opened and 
stretched its wings but the next moment they discovered me 
v;hen they at once toddled to the pine and crouched close 
against its trunk, touching one a.nother. As I advanced the 
camera to v/ithin about two yards of them, they shranli back still 
closer to the tree and began snapping their bills but while I 
Y/as taking the photographs they lay perfectly motionless. I 
saw no food and no pellets near them but the surface of the^ 
ground around the pine was white with their cha.lky excrement. 
Before I got near the young the old birds began 
hooting a,nd the male presently started off taking the same 
course as on May 2nd and aga.in attracting a mob of Cro?/s the 
moment he left the shelter of the v/oods. The female came about 
me in a. half circle as usuatl, but for the first time she neglected 
the tactics v/hich she has hitherto adopted and contended herself 
