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Title: Birds : illustrated by color photography : a monthly serial ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Nature Study Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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re quiet during theday and very busy all night.The Snowy Owl is not so quietday times. He flies about con-siderably and gets most of hisfood in daylight. A hunter who was restingunder a tree, on the bank of ariver, tells this of him: A Snowy Owl was perched onthe branch of a dead tree thathad fallen into the river. Hesat there looking into the waterand blinking his large eyes. Suddenly he reached out andbefore I could see how he did it,a fish was in his claws. This certainly shows that hecan see well in the day time. Hecan see best, however, in thetwilight, in cloudy weather ormoonlight. That is the waywith your cat. The wing feathers of the owlare different from those of mostbirds. They are as soft as down.This is why you cannot hear himwhen he flies. Owls while perch-ing are almost always found inquiet places where they will notbe disturbed. Did you ever hear the voice ofan owl in the night? If younever have, you cannot imaginehow dreary it sounds. He surelyis The Bird of the Night.
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From col. Chi.. Acad. Sciences. SNOWY OWL. BIRDS AND FARMERS. From the Forest and Stream. (^ HE advocates of protection for t our small birds present two q) sets of reasons for preventing ~^ their killing; the one senti-mental, and the other economic. The sentimental reasons are theones most often urged ; they are alsoof a kind to appeal with especial forceto those whose responsibility for thedestruction of the birds is greatest.The women and girls, for whose adorn-ment birds plumage is chiefly used,think little and know less about theservices which birds perform for agri-culture, and indeed it may be doubtedwhether the sight of a bunch of feathersor a stuffed birds skin suggests tothem any thought of the life thatthose feathers once represented. Butwhen the wearers are reminded thatthere was such a life; that it wascheery and beautiful, and that it wascut short merely that their apparelmight be adorned, they are quick torecognize that bird destruction involvesa wrong, and are ready t

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