trapping muskrats. 
Then there is the barn owl, but I 
never could see any difference between 
son’s owl which is very rare. It is 
about the size of a small-sized hawk, 
but has a perfect owl’s head. 
Another owl is the screech owl, but I 
never could see much difference be- 
tween it and the small gray owl, as 
my experience with them is they can 
all screech when they want to. I once 
‘eaught one in one of my sable traps, 
a deadfall. The trap was snowed up 
some and didn’t spring very hard on 
his neck, but he couldn’t pull his head 
back. I clipped his wing, carried him 
to camp and kept him in confinement 
some days. He appeared to be per- 
fectly satisfied as long as I gave him 
plenty to eat. I took him home, as I 
lived near the woods then, and set him 
down on the floor in a corner of the 
kitchen. The cat went to investigate 
and the owl made a snap at her with 
his bill; the cat ran across the room 
and out of the window and didn’t come 
back for several days. The owl and 
I were in a peck of trouble then. I 
went back to the woods the next day 
and when I came home again the owl 
was gone. He got out in the door yard 
and killed a hen and that was the end 
of him. 
It is impossible to hear owls flying. 
Their feathers are covered with down 
and you couldn’t hear one if it flew 
directly over your head. 
Has Carrier Pigeon Bands 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
LARGE blue pigeon, much ex- 
hausted, came to my barn recently 
and died the next day; one leg was en- 
circled with a narrow brass strip num- 
beréd 6565, the other with a well made 
%-inch aluminum ring, bearing various 
raised letters and numbers. 
I should like to send these to a 
pigeon club and thereby get them final- 
ly to the owner, who must wish to know 
the fate of his bird. 
HAROLD HERRICK, 
Lawrence, L. I. 





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