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Title: Birdcraft : a field book of two hundred song, game, and water birds
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927
Subjects: Birds -- United States
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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all means then, if in return they will keep the slycutworm from the young carnations and heliotropes. Great Horned Owl: Bubo virginianus. Hoot Owl.Plate 54. Length: 19-23 inches ; female, 21-24 inches. Male and Female: Large ponderous birds. Long ear tufts, feathersmottled irregularly, buff, tawny brown, and whitish. Iris yellow,pupil round and large, with great power of contraction. Feetand legs feathered. Bill and claws black. Note: A wild startling * Hoo-hoo-oooo ! Waugh-hoo ! Season: Resident. Breeds: In February or March, but the young grow slowly, remainingten to twelve weeks in the nest. Nest: Seldom in holes at the north, usually a bulky nest on a horizon-tal branch, in deep woods. Preferably in evergreens and nearthe top. Sggs: Usually 2, dirty white. Hange : Eastern North America, west to the Mississippi Valley, andfrom Labrador south to Costa Rica. This vigorous and untamable Owl is easily identifiedbecause of its great size and long ear feathers. The largest 212 PLATE 54.
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GREAT HOKNEl) OWL. Length, 19-23 inches ; female, 2 inches larger. BIRDS OF PREY. Owls of our common Owls (the rare Great Gray Owl alone beinglarger), it is a bird of the deep woods, swift in flight andferocious in the extreme, both in seizing large game aswell as in fighting when disabled. A nocturnal species, itcan see perfectly in bright sunlight, though it prefers toremain secluded. During the nesting-season, if the weatheris cloudy, it searches for food both day and night. It is the most destructive of Owls and of all the birds ofprey except perhaps the Goshawk and Coopers Hawk. Dr.Merriam, in speaking of its mischief in the farmyard, says,Indeed I have known one to kill and decapitate threeturkeys and several hens in a single night, leaving thebodies uninjured and fit for the table. (In common withmany other birds of prey, it prefers the brain to any otherportion of the victim.) This savage Owl also destroys vastquantities of large game-birds and may be safely consideredundesira

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