. A year of sport and natural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing. Hunting; Fishing; Falconry; Birds. OUR BIRDS OF PREY. 65 ally known, though he is sometimes spoken of as the Brown, sometimes as the Wood Owl. No owl is better known than he to those who move about at night, because he is the only owl that hoots. This hooting—one of the most marvellous and most beautiful of bird-voices—is in many districts a sound of awe to. BARN OWL. the country folk, who connect the Tawny Owl with certain superstitions, so that it is " bad luck "to kill the bird. Prejudice, sa
. A year of sport and natural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing. Hunting; Fishing; Falconry; Birds. OUR BIRDS OF PREY. 65 ally known, though he is sometimes spoken of as the Brown, sometimes as the Wood Owl. No owl is better known than he to those who move about at night, because he is the only owl that hoots. This hooting—one of the most marvellous and most beautiful of bird-voices—is in many districts a sound of awe to. BARN OWL. the country folk, who connect the Tawny Owl with certain superstitions, so that it is " bad luck "to kill the bird. Prejudice, sad to say, has defeated superstition in the case of the game- keeper, who, left to his own devices by an ignorant or indifferent employer, takes this bird in his villainous pole-traps. The average K. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Crawfurd, Oswald, 1834-1909. London, Chapman and Hall
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