THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF OUR NATIVE BIRDS. 
&c., are ejected from the mouth in the shape of pellets, and from these the 
nature of this bird’s food can easily be arrived at. The dissection and ~ 
examination of a great many of these pellets has proved the nature of this 
bird’s food. Apart from the writer’s own work in this direction, Seebhom, 
' [S. A, White, Photo, 
“BARN OR SCREECH OWL (Tyto alba delecatula). 
i From Life. : 
in his exhaustive history of. British birds, holds that the, barn owl is un 
doubtedly the farmer’s best friend. He gives an instance in which twenty 
freshly-killed rats were found in a barn owl’s nest. He also says that in 700 
pellets of this owl there were found the remains of 16 bats, 2,513 mice, 1 mole, 
and 22 birds, of which 19 were sparrows. : 
Seaenin ; [S. A. White, Photo. 
PELLETS OF A BARN OR SCREECH OWL. ze 
First 3 containing sparrow skulls broken in at the base; 4th, mostly night-flying insects ; 
5th, mice and rats. n 
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