. Bulletin - Biological Survey. Zoology, Economic. BARRED OWL. 153 This Owl is a lover of deep, dark woods, wliere it spends most of the day in quiet among the thick foliage. Heavy Avooded swamps, with their luxuriant growth and festoons of vines, or the stately hemlock forests are the places preeminently suited to the bird's taste. It is the commonest species of rapacious bird throughout the ex- tensive swamps covered by cypress and other growths which abound in the coast region of the South, where as many as fifteen or twenty may be seen in a day's tramp. Although not usually seen near habit
. Bulletin - Biological Survey. Zoology, Economic. BARRED OWL. 153 This Owl is a lover of deep, dark woods, wliere it spends most of the day in quiet among the thick foliage. Heavy Avooded swamps, with their luxuriant growth and festoons of vines, or the stately hemlock forests are the places preeminently suited to the bird's taste. It is the commonest species of rapacious bird throughout the ex- tensive swamps covered by cypress and other growths which abound in the coast region of the South, where as many as fifteen or twenty may be seen in a day's tramp. Although not usually seen near habitations, it sometimes wanders into large towns, either in search of food or the shelter afforded by some attractive clump of evergreens. Mr. F. H. Carpenter makes the interesting statement that in the vi- cinity of Kingfield, Me., this Owl often resorts to barns during the day time and is known locally as "Barn ; (Ornithologist and Oolo- gist, vol. xi, 1886, p. 177.) When kept in captivity it soon becomes tame, especially when taken young, and makes a gentle and interesting pet, soon learning to know its master and to greet his coming with signs of affection and pleasure. This Owl, like others of the family, generally remains quiet during the brightest part of the day. This habit is from choice and is not due to any defect in its vision. The familiar instances cited in books, where is has been known to alight on a collector's gun barrel or the back of a cow, are not evidences of defective vision, but merely show that the bird was preoccupied or had its eyes fastened on some object of unusual interest. A hawk has been known to follow a chicken into the house and attack it under a chair occupied by a person; yet no one will argue that the hawk was unable to see the individual. Mr. Frank Bolles found that his pet Barred Owls could not see in an ordinary degree of darkness, and thinks they sleep at night. (Auk, vol. vn, 1890, p. 106.) Although usually quiet, it evident
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