. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 128 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM In habits the Hawk owl is the most diurnal of the family. It is usually seen watching for its prey from some exposed perch and, when disturbed, pitches downward and flies rapidly away over the tops of the grass or bushes, gliding abruptly upward when alighting. Its note is " a shrill cry uttered generally when the bird is on the wing " (Fisher). Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea (Bonaparte) Burrowing Owl Strix hypogaea Bonaparte. Amer. Orn. 1825. 1:72 Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. A. O. U. Check List. Ed
. Annual report. New York State Museum; Science; Science. 128 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM In habits the Hawk owl is the most diurnal of the family. It is usually seen watching for its prey from some exposed perch and, when disturbed, pitches downward and flies rapidly away over the tops of the grass or bushes, gliding abruptly upward when alighting. Its note is " a shrill cry uttered generally when the bird is on the wing " (Fisher). Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea (Bonaparte) Burrowing Owl Strix hypogaea Bonaparte. Amer. Orn. 1825. 1:72 Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 177. No. 378 speotyto, Gr., aireoq, cave, and tutw, a hoot owl; cunicularia, Lat., a burrower; hypo- gaea, Lat.,=Gr. uxoyetoq, underground Description. Small; no ear tufts; legs long and scantily feathered; feet bare except for a few bristles. Upper parts grayish brown profusely spotted with white; under parts whitish spotted with brown in broken bars. Length inches; extent 23; wing Distribution. The little burrowing owl is purely an accidental visitant in New York. There is only one record of its occurrence, a specimen taken in New York City, and reported in Forest & Stream 5, 4, August 12, 1875. It nad wandered far from its home, for the species inhabits the Western States Burrowingowi. Speotyto cunicularia hypo- from British Columbia and Manitoba g a e a (Bonaparte). From specimen in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 nat. size south to Louisiana and Panama. It lives mostly in the burrows of Prairie dogs and other rodents, but the subspecies which lives in southern Florida is said to excavate its own nesting Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum. Albany : University of the State of New York
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