. The book of birds : common birds of town and country and American game birds . d monkey-faced owl, is one of themost beneficial of the birds of prey, since itfeeds almost exclusively on small mammalsthat injure farm produce, nursery, and orchardstock. It hunts principally in the open andconsequently secures such mammals as pocketgophers, field mice, common rats, house mice,harvest mice, kangaroo rats, and cotton occasionally captures a few birds and least a half bushel of the remains of pocketgophers have been found in the nesting cavityof a pair of these birds. Rememberin
. The book of birds : common birds of town and country and American game birds . d monkey-faced owl, is one of themost beneficial of the birds of prey, since itfeeds almost exclusively on small mammalsthat injure farm produce, nursery, and orchardstock. It hunts principally in the open andconsequently secures such mammals as pocketgophers, field mice, common rats, house mice,harvest mice, kangaroo rats, and cotton occasionally captures a few birds and least a half bushel of the remains of pocketgophers have been found in the nesting cavityof a pair of these birds. Remembering that agopher has been known in a short time togirdle seven apricot trees worth $100, it is hardto overestimate the value of the service of apair of barn owls; 1,247 pellets of the barnowl collected from the Smithsonian towerscontained 3,100 skulls, of which 3,004, or 97per cent, were of mammals ; 92, or 3 per cent, ofbirds, and 4 were of frogs. The bulk consistedof 1,987 field mice, 656 house mice, and 210common rats. This valuable owl should berigidly protected Photograph by George Shiras, 3rd A REMARKABLE OF A SNOWY OWE White Fish River, Michigan. The author was looking for deer. Flash held in one handand camera in the other. The owl fell 15 feet into the water, swore like a trooper, andwaded ashore. 73 FRIENDS OF OUR FORESTS-THE WARBLERS By HENRY W. HENSHAW IVith Illustrations from Paintings by Louis Agassi:: Fuertes AT EVERY stage of their growth, l\ from the seed to the adult tree,X Jl our forest, shade, and orchardtrees are subject to the attacks of hordesof insect enemies, which, if unchecked,would soon utterly destroy them. What the loss of our forest and shadetrees would mean to us can better beimagined than described. Wood entersinto so many products that it is difficultto think of civilized man without it, whilethe fruits of our orchards also are of thegreatest importance. Aside from the eco-nomic loss, which can hardly be imagined,much les
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