1898 
Jung 2 
Pat told me yesterday that Davis (the marketman) had 
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a young Great Horned Ov/1 that had been given to him alive by 
Lawrence! I asked him to ma.ke further inquiries and to-day 
xie brought word that La^wrence ha.d found two young Owls in his 
woods by the river. One he caught, the other escaped. Davis 
was kind enough to send me the ca^ptive bird which I shall 
restore to i'cs native woods as soon as it ca.n fly v/ell. It is 
the larger of the two and looks much as it did when I last sav; 
it in the tall pine. I hope that it is true that the other 
young escaped. 
It is time to ta-ke up the history of the young G-reat 
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Horned Owl that I had of Davis, Shortly after getting him, I 
saw Henry Lawrence who told me that he found the two young 
sitting side by side on the branch of a tall pine in the woods 
by the river. As he approached, the larger fine flew and he 
shot it, breaking its ?/ing. He did not molest the other young 
bird but he fired at and, as he thinks, v/ounded one of the parents, 
I kept this young Owl in a, ca^ge in the woods near the 
cabin for upwards of tv;o weeks. Like all of its fierce race, it 
was surly a.nd untamable, three.tening every one who approached 
it closely, by snapping its bill a.nd maJ^:ing quick thrusts with 
its formidable ta^lons. It finally lea.rned to tolerate Gilbert, 
hov/ever, and took raw meat from his fingers thanklessly enough 
but v;ithout much active resentment. At interva^ls of from one to 
five mlnutes^uring the night and occasionally by bay, as well, 
it uttered a short, harsh, penetrating cry which was not unlike 
a 
the peep of Choraldlles and vrhlch, no doubt, was merely a 
