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Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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t; the food that was an ahoniination, wasbecause it deserved to be there in the last instance, andwas sLindered in tlie first. As an article of di(,t. theowl was not attractive. Its nuat was dark, i-aiik. andtouo-h at an early age. The food of the bird was almostentirely meat; rats, mice, fowl, and small living creaturesit could capture and swallow. INIated pairs seenud allectionate near their nests, -whichthey j)laced according to species and location. Theybrooded in caves, on dark cliffs, in hollow trees, towers,holes in walls, hi-anches of trees in the oj)en. burrows inembankments, and in thi sand of the disert and waste))laces. They laid from four to six. eggs, according tospecies, and cared for their young with griat solicitude.These young wele downx little white hahies. the mostcuniiiiig imaginable; and lhe\ featheied slowlv, so thatonly one biood to a season was po^^il)Ie. The liihie mentions the great owl. the *little owl.and the screech owl. Thev also had an owl which clostly
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-.( Ki;i;.\-POUTEH ^Thc screech oicl ttlxu shall rest there. TIIK OWI.S 4f>8 roscniblcd our bam owl. but no passaoe sccnis in wirvdirectly to it; though it is the bird tliat most probai)lywould be in tlic timbers of ruined cities and in mosque andtemple towers. The great owl was ahnost two feet inlieiiiht and closely resembled our great horned owl. The little owF might have been any one of a num-ber of small species which could make the recjuired noise.Wc still designate one family of small owls by the namescreech because of their peculiar Avavering cry. Theancients originated the idea. It is certain that when night came, and the owls criedin forest, ruin, cave, temjjle, vineyards, and gardens, everyone sluuUlered. This was altogether unfair to the V)ird.Owls are umisually safe in their daytime seclusion andtheir night-hunting. They remain in pairs for life, andlive in the same location, which proves them satisfied andhappy birds. When they lift up thei

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