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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 469

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 469 — ginning the latter part of Feb-ruary, the barred owl about the middle of Marchin the New England and Middle States, select-ing, as pictured, an old hawks nest, sometimesa crows nest, and frequently laying the two tofour white eggs in a hollow tree. Our barredowl is rightly called the hoot-owl, for,… … THE BARRED OWL AND ITS FIRST EGG, LAID IN AN OLDHAWKS NEST ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF MARCH. vent the wings making any noise. The owlhas been called a cat in feathers. Mr. John H. Sage tells the following story : I had a funny experience with a barred owlonce, in Maine. It was in the daytime, and thebird…

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