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Title: The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories
Year: 1840 (1840s)
Authors: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 Bowen, John T., ca. 1801-1856?, lithographer
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Published by J.J. Audubon Philadelphia : J.B. Chevalier
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ems thelargest part, the body being much more slender that it is usually represented.Now and then it raises itself and stands with its legs and neck extended, asif the better to mark the approach of an intruder. Its eyes, which wereclosed when it was first observed, are opened on the least noise, and it seemsto squint at you in a most grotesque manner, although it is not difficult toapproach very near it. It rarely on such occasions takes to wing, but throwsitself into the thicket, and makes off on foot by means of pretty long leaps. The Long-eared Owl is careless as to the situation in which its young areto be reared, and generally accommodates itself with an abandoned nest ofsome other bird that proves of sufficient size, whether it be high or low, inthe fissure of a rock or on the ground. Sfmetimes however it makes a nestitself, and this I found to be the case in one instance near the Juniata Riverin Pennsylvania, where it was composed of green twigs with the leaflets N°8. PI 3 7.
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&r ^^/Z^.-^fZ^1^ (l4#6/. ■<-.-: ;■ I: S.l.L s l.iih? Primed &Colflv J T.IWcii Thilnrt LONG-EARED OWL. 137 adhering, and lined with fresh grass and sheep wool, but without feathers.The eggs are usually four, nearly equally rounded at both ends, thin-shelled,smooth, when newly deposited pure white, with a slight blush, which is nolonger observable when they have been for some time sitten upon; their ave-rage length an inch and a half, their greatest breadth an inch and three-six-teenths. I found eggs of this bird on the 15th of April, and again on the25th of June, which induces me to believe that it rears two broods in theseason in the State of Pennsylvania, as it probably does also to the westward.Wilson relates the following instance of its indifference as to the place se-lected for its eggs. About six or seven miles below Philadelphia, and notfar from the Delaware, is a low swamp, thickly covered with trees, and in-undated during great part of the year. This place is t

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