The birds of New England and adjacent states - containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature with (14747611691)

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Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England, and adjoining states and provinces, arranged by a long-approved classification and nomenclature ... with illustrations of many species of the birds, accurate figures of their nests and eggs

Year: 1875 (1870s)

Authors: Samuels, Edward Augustus, 1836-1908

Subjects: Birds -- New England Birds -- Nests

Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes, and company

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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days to bright ones, and is mostactive just before a storm. Audubon says that this Owlcaptures living fish in the water by standing quietly by themargin, and seizing its prey with its claws, as it appearsnear the surface: wlietlier this is a regular habit or not, Icannot say. I never saw one do so; and I have conversedwith several hunters who have shot numbers of specimens,and they all were ignorant of such a fact. Of the breeding habits of this Owl, we are ignorant.The Hudsons Bay, and other northern countries, are itssummer homes. Wheelwright, in his Spring and Sum-mer in Lapland, gives the only description of its nest andeggs accessible to me at present. He says : — The egg of the Snowy Owl measures 2^ inches in length, andIf inches in breadth: its color is pure-white. The nest is nothingmore than a large boll of reindeer moss, placed on the ledge of abare fell. The old birds guard it most jealously ; in fact, the Lap-landers often kill them with a stick when they are robbing the

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tJNuWV Owi., NjcLca niveu. Gray THE HAWK OWL. 79 nest, which they do upon every occasion that presents itself. TheSnowy Owl will occasionally make its nest on the large turf-hillocksIn some of the mosses. SUENIA, DuMEKiL Surnia, DuMERiL, Zoologie Analytique, 34 (1806). General form rather long, but robust; size medium; head moderate, without ear-tufts; facial disc obsolete; bill moderate, curved from the base, covered with pro-jecting plumes; wings long; tail long, wide, graduated; legs rather short, and withthe toes densely feathered; contains one Bpecies only, which inhabits the arcticregions of both continents. SURNIA ULULA. — Bonaparte. The Hawk Owl; Day Owl. Strix ulula, Linnaeus. Syst. Nat., L 133 (1766). Strix funerea Gm. Bonap. Syn. 25. Nutt., L 115. Aud. Om. Biog.,rV. 550. Strix Budsonica, Wilson, VI. 64. Description. Wings rather long; first three quills incised on their inner webs; tail long, withits central feathers about two inches longer than the outer; tarsi and toes

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