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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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VARIOUS PARASITIC PLANTS; WITH AN OWL STORY 941 the Bird House in the National "Zoo" at Washington, down upon its perch, and allows its and which has a very interesting history. At this writ- to hang way down below it, for a ing he is full grown, and in very beautiful plumage, while least ten inches or more. There are at the time of his capture he was in the pure white, downy stage of the young of this species, a n d, like most young owls, a most remark- able-1 o o k i ng bird. It was at this stage of his growth that I penned an account of h i s capture, and published it in a popular journal in New England some- where. That story was il- lustrated, in so far as this par- t i c u1 a r owl was concerned, by a reproduc- tion of a pho- t o g r a p h I made of it, which showed the attitude it assumed when asleep. This attitude is most e xtraordinary, ■' Fig. 9—NESTLING OF THE BARRED OWL (Strix v. varia), A WELL KNOWN SPECIES OF THIS as it s n u a t s country, although now fully grown, this bird receives both room and board ^ free from the government at the national zoological park at WASHINGTON.
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head and neck distance of at those who will be interested to know what this Barred Owl looked like when it first left the liollow in the tree that its parents had selected as a nesting place. This I secured a few days after it came into my pos- session, and a r e p r oduction of the photo- 'j, r a p h illus- trates this brief biogra- )>hy. It will be of interest to know that of the large num- ber of species of owls we have in this country, that in the case of the o w 1 1 e t s their first )ihunage is al- m o s t invari- ably white and downy as in the case of this young Barred Owl. CRATER LAKE SHELL HOLE /CRATER LAKE was recently most aptly described ^^ by Representative Sinnot, of Oregon, when speaking from the floor of the House as follows : "Crater Lake, cauldron-like and circular, 7,000 feet high, is perched amid the peaks. Perpendicular sides of slaggy lava rise over a thousand feet from waters of indigo blue six miles across and 2,000 feet deep. "To the scientist, a mighty volcano collapsed within itself. Mount Mazama, 15,000 feet high, telescoped. "To the poet, 'the sea of silence,' 'a lake of mystery.' "To me, a shell hole of a war of worlds—who knows? "Could the great blind poet have seen this marvel ere his pen had Lucifer and his host of rebel angels— Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down— in Miltonic imagery here he'd have found the impact." /^ OPIES of the Roster of American Foresters and ^-^ Lumbermen in Military Service—final publication— are available on request. This is a reprint from the November issue of American Forestry, containing ad- ditions and changes received up to November 15, 1918. Address American Forestry Association, Washington, District of Columbia.

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