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Identifier: birdlore221920nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SCREECH OWLHe might well pass for the cats familiar (267)
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A YUL-\G SCREECH OWLDignified of mien but ridiculous in aspect (268) The Screech Owl 269 I suppose years of testimony will not change the current impression thatOwls see but imperfectly during the dayhght hours. Years of observationhave convinced me that they see quite as well as cats. A hairy caterpillar,crawling among the blades of grass of a golfers fair green, was seen and swoopedupon by the Owlet, though he had been sitting upon a fence-post some twelvefeet distant, bhnking in the early afternoon sun. Once captured and sampled,the caterpillar was rejected. A mouse would not have been refused, thoughthe Owlet had been crop-full. The habits of Owls in dealing with mice are well known; not so well knownare the details. If it is the severed head that makes the seraph, there will bechoirs of mice among the angels, for though such small fry are usually swallowedwhole, decapitation is the favorite method for piece-meal consumption. Thesevered head, whether of mouse or bird, is apparentl

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