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Title: Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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of thepresence of her mate, who made frantic effortsthrough a series of bowings, wing-raisings, andsnappings to attract her attention. These anticswere continued for some time, varied by hopsfrom branch to branch near her, accompanied bythat forlorn, almost despairing wink peculiar tothis bird. Once or twice I thought I detectedsounds of inward groanings, as he, beside himselfwith his unsuccessful approaches, sat in utterdejection. The Screech Owls nesting site is almost alwaysa hollow in a tree, often a Woodpeckers hole,and it has been known to accept a bird-box forits home. It is interesting to hear that both lit-tle parent Owls sometimes sit on the eggs at thesame time. The eggs, like those of all Owls, arewhite. Long-eared Owl: Asio wilsoniajius. (Plate. XXII.) Geographic Distribution. — North America ; breeds fromNora Scotia and Manitoba southward to the Gulf states andtable-lands of Mexico. In the Long-eared Owl we have one of theinteresting cases where unconscious protective
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Plate XXII. — LONG-EARED OWLEar-tufts an inch or more long- ; upper parts dark brown, markedwith jellowish ; under parts white, longitudinally streakedwith brown ; facial disk yellowish. Length, about l.j inches. LONG-EAEED OWL 289 coloration is combined with conscious protectiveattitudes. AVlien the Owl is frightened, it risesup, draws the feathers close to the body, anderects the ear-tufts, resembling in appearance apiece of weather-beaten bark more than a bird. ^When not able to em23loy this device effectively,the Owl resorts to another. Major Bendire sur-prised one while she was killing a ground squir-rel, and was startled by the sudden transformationthat took place in her. All at once she seemedto expand to several times her normal size,he says, every feather raised and standing at aright angle from the body; the wings were fullyspread, thrown uj) and obliquely backward, theirouter edges touching each other over and behindthe head, which likewise looked abnormally large.This wa

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