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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
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gossipand idle your timeaway. You will have to-day to decideupon the matter, and off Mr. Britisherflew, with a heavy frown upon his face. Oh! I wish I had never been born,wailed Mrs. B., as the gentle windstirred the leaves and swayed thebranch upon which she was perched.Already I begin to experience thetroubles which old folks talk about.Oh, dear! Oh, dear! Ill fly over tomother and tell her how shamefullyMr. B. is treating me. I wont standit, there! Gracious! there is that med-dlesome Mr. Blue Jay sneaking aroundas usual. He has heard me sobbing,Im afraid, and all the neighbors willbe gossiping before night of our affairs.There! how cheerily I sang when I flewoff! He will think my sobs were anew song, perhaps. To think that Ishould be making believe Im happyalready. Happy! I shall never behappy again. My • heart is broken.Mother will give Mr. Britisher a pieceof her mind, I hope, and let him knowI was never brought up to work, muchless to be any mans slave.( To be concluded.) 152
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THE AMERICAN BARN OWL. (Slri.i- pratincola). LYNDS JONES. OUR barn owl belongs to the trop-ical and warm temperate genusStrix, which is scattered widely-over the greater part of theearth in the tropical and subtropicalparts of both hemispheres, and scatter-ingly into the temperate zones. InEurope one species is common as farnorth as the British Isles, while our ownbird is found as far north as southernNew England in the East, Ontario,Michigan, Wisconsin, and southernMinnesota in the interior, and .Oregonand Washington on the Pacific coast.It is hardly common anywhere exceptin the extreme southwestern part ofthe United States, where it is the mostabundant owl in California. It is rareor casual north of about the fortiethparallel. But two specimens have beenbrought to the Oberlin College Museumin twenty years, one of which wasfound dead in a barn a mile east ofOberlin in December of 1898. The barn owl is the most nocturnalof all our owls, although he can seeperfectly in the brightest da

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