. Diseases and enemies of poultry . //. SCREECH OWL. 243 fresh beef. When a mouse was given to this bird ilwoiiUl seize il with its claws, and after severing withits bill the skin about the head and neck, would swal-low the whole mass, always, I think, head it fed on small birds—which were frequentlyshot and placed in the box, but winch it would seldomtouch—T noticed that it generally tore op(>n tlie skulland ate the brain substance. Tliis owl would neverdrink water. FACTS ABOUT ITS HABITS. The flight of the Mottled Owl is smooth, rapid, protractedand noiseless. It risos at ti
. Diseases and enemies of poultry . //. SCREECH OWL. 243 fresh beef. When a mouse was given to this bird ilwoiiUl seize il with its claws, and after severing withits bill the skin about the head and neck, would swal-low the whole mass, always, I think, head it fed on small birds—which were frequentlyshot and placed in the box, but winch it would seldomtouch—T noticed that it generally tore op(>n tlie skulland ate the brain substance. Tliis owl would neverdrink water. FACTS ABOUT ITS HABITS. The flight of the Mottled Owl is smooth, rapid, protractedand noiseless. It risos at times above the top branches of thehighest of our forest trees whilst in pursuit of large beetles,and at other times sails low and swiftly over the fields orthrough the woods in search of small birds, field mice, molesor wood rats, from which it chiefly derives its on alighting, which it does plumply. the MottledOw^l immediately bends its body, turns its head to look behindit, performs a curious nod. utters its
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