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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ME ke))! sharp on the uppermost hole of the loft, for it was through this opening1 had learned that the bird usually came. Suddenly there was a shuftlingsound at the top of the cote, a white form ;)ulled its way through the pigeon-hole, and a magnificent creature s))rang out mU) space and winged silentlyaway to seek the shelter of some trees on the o))posite side of the road. But,with the first wing-stroke of the bird, there had sounded the reports of twofocal-plane shutters, and, as we relaxed and shifted plates, our words of con-gratulation were mutual. At just this moment, however, there began a commotion in the pigeon-loft that immediately changed our smiles to scowls of a))prehension. Firstthere was a sculilling and scratching, intermingled with some inaudible mutter-ings from the farm-hand, and then there began a series of pitiful, wailingcries which one could easily ha\-e believed were issuing from a human throat,but which we knew to be coming from that of a terrified Barn Owl.
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Barn Owls Nesting in New York City 229 The silualion was as plain as it was painful. Ilu- binl that wr had justphotographed was the male, who had been ()erchinjj; somewhere in the loftand had left at the sound of footsteps on the ladder. The female had remainedat her post (which hapjiened to l)e a nest containing eight eggs), where shehad been discovered and captured by our assistant. The birds screamsof distress suggested that Iht captor might be either choking her to death orwringing her neck. Whats the trouble? cried .\bbott. Oixe got an owooll shouted the Irishman. Let her go! commanded Abbott. Shes too valuable came from the recesses of the loft. Dont hurt her, I tell you I we both called in chorus. Oi can get $5.00 for her returned the villain from within. You cant get a cent for her Abbott explained; its against the lawto kill her. Shes worth more ali\e than dead, and well make it worth yourwhile to let her go. But the only answer was another series of sickening outcries from t

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