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and the 'Big eye Turkey', has got well
and it has afforded me an opportunity
of obsevation. I do not know wheather
its male or[r written over f strikethrough] female. It has commenced to
crow, (hoot, for it must be a hooting or timber
Owl,) and it will mawk any one that mawks
him. He will eat any kind of fresh meat. Rats
mice. frogs and snakes, and he swallowed a
snake a foot in length this afternoon. since then
has eaten a mole and he is ready for another one. he is a
monstrous glutton, but endures hunger well.
I would like to know the species he belongs to. He is
destitute of those horn like appendages which some
owls have, but upon parting the thick feather upon
the sides of his head you can see an awfull hole
large enough to run your finger into, and you can see
half way through his head. he can hear very quick.
Length 17 incs. 34,-9. Eyes large black with blue
pupils, bill, and gums Brown yellow.
It is a curious fact that the Cicada did not kill
the limbs here where they stung them, but some of
our customers complained of the Locust killing
their little apple trees. I think they appeared further
south than Springfield. I have seven cocoons
now (in cigar boxes covered on one side with wire
gauze for a cage) and hope they will be handsome
moths of some kind. They are hanging out doors
and have each a seperate cell or cage, and
if any one is a female while she is a virgin
I can catch male which will come on the out
side where I can capture new ones.
The idea was suggested by something of the
kind that I read last winter.
No more at present. Yours,
William J Shaw.

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7/2/2023 Initial review complete. CE
Action: This page was in much better shape with regard to the transcription. Not sure of the initial "J" in signature.