BARN OWLS are most perfectly constructed machines for transforming fur into feathers. Young birds will eat their weight in mice every twenty-four hours. One youngster was fed eight mice and only backed down on the ninth which was absorbed all but the tail!
A family studied by Finley, in an old barn, at three weeks, were the funniest, fuzziest, monkey-face little creatures. They blinked, snapped their bills and hissed like a box full of snakes.
Barn Owls are nowhere common, due probably to their odd appearance which tempts the ignorant to kill them.
Locally distributed over most of the United States.