This is an excerpt taken from an article by Laing, published in ''Field and Stream'' magazine in 1936. The passage is exemplative of Laing's attitudes towards nature more generally, and towards the larger predators in particular. The horned owl, of whatever race, is usually rated as one of Nature's most efficient executioners. Few people realize his efficiency. He has the wing speed of a goshawk, and under his weather-proof coat is the muscular strength of a tomcat. In his head he carries the ears of magicsensitiveness and eyes like a binocular telescope, and in his heart a killing lust that keeps himwell nourished anywhere. From one of his lesser owl cousins to a turkey, he dines impartially. He is deadly to the game birds - another reason why one of his kind in a landscape is generallyregarded as one owl too many. Every hand should be against him.Source:Laing, Mack. "Page Mr. Bubo: How You Can Eliminate This Killer," in Field and Stream Vol. XLI (Dec. 1936),qtd. in Richard Mackie, Hamilton Mack Laing: Hunter-Naturalist, (Victoria: Sono Nis Press,1985), 152.