Aug. 18.—I have been having some interesting experiences with a Whitely's Owlet which throw some light on the bird's habits. La Touche says it is a day Owl (frequenting orchards, gardens etc.)—but I feel I must differ from this Statement, for if this bird habitually fed by day, our gardens would have no ptace....as this story will relate, An Owlet has waked me every night for a week past, visiting my trees about 4 a.m. (which is really 3 o'clock) to give its famous performance—a series of loud cries something between a laugh and a shriek: last night I heard its "Ao-loo-oe-loo" call in the distance at 330 and was therefore quite ready for its usual visit which took place ai 430. Later. when I was dressing in broad daylight, 'I heard every Bulbul in the garden giving its warning rattle: from the verandah I soon descried the Owlet sitting solemnly out on a bare branch being sworn at and mobbed by every bird in the garden: as usual the Owlet sat in a hunched-up attitude. with feathers bristled out. but otherwise took no notice of its attackers, To say that pandemonium had broken out is no exaggeration, for if certainly sounded as if all the demons of the air were let loose. To make matters worse a pair of shrikes joined the party to add their strident "wark-wark-wark" to the rattling of the bulbuls: finally one persists. although it scarcely squares the. facts. The truth is tary of Apart of customs and of internal revenues. flotation and ut of the Treasury includes within its province the Mint and the. as the management of the Stabilization Pund. the control of some $4. assets which have been frozen the. complex problem of collaborating with Britain in the purchase of war materials under the lease-lend law.
The direction of this vast field of activity, specially in these days of world crisis. is an enormous job. It calls for hard work. long hours and everlasting application to the problems in hand. These are precisely the outstanding impressions one gets from a visit to the Treasury. The long. cool marble-tiled corridors fashioned gilt pilasters. rive Wile sense of the of the great Treasury Building, with their oldpremure, of wom the white-shuMered doors that line these cor-Siss <5; Ien annum riders the Treasury's financial experts are working long hours, shaping tax proposals, pushing the defence savings bond campaign, development in he money market and the planning new securities issues. watching the
swelling demand for funds to meet the expanding a jump or two ahead oni o eae Sams enormous ing programme of national defence and aid to Britain. And Mr. Morgenthau bosses that job.
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