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Last year Albert Moore Reese, zoologist at West Virginia State University, stopped thinking so much about alligators, on which he is an authority, and turned his attention to owls. His interest began when citizens of Morgantown, W. Va. complained about being attacked by owls. Dr. Reese inquired hither & yon, asked people who had had owl encounters to tell him all about their experiences. From all over the U. S. came letters. Last fortnight he published some of his data in Science (weekly...
...their beaks before darting away. The majority of victims, however, had actually been struck with beak or claws. Frequently the skin was painfully lacerated. One correspondent wrote that he knew a lumberjack who had suffered from a clawed neck for several months. In Louisiana, a Negro complained that an owl had gouged his eye out. The birds in one U. S. town developed a peculiar antipathy for policemen, made frequent passes at their blue-capped heads...
HARVARD SPRINGFIELD Harding, l.e. r.e., Wilson Upton, r.t. r.t., Rae Bancroft, r.g. r.g., Peterson Ticknor, c. c., Thompson Richards, r.g. l.g., Ball Kuehn, r.t. l.t., Geesman Ogden, r.e. l.e., Blumenstock Wood, q.b. q.b., White Batchelder, l.h.b. r.h.b., Knowlton Devens, r.h.b. l.h.b., Owl Schereschewsky, f.b. f.b., Simonson...
...searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher, and a pygmy owl. The four towering volcanoes which surround the lake are thought to have prevented the birds from migrating...
...Owl Club...