. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Jp-. Whitt! Snowy Owl .376. Snowy Owl. Nyctea nyctea. Range.—Arctic regions, breeding within the Arctic Circle and wintering tothe northern border of the United Slates and casually farther. This very beautiful species varies in plumage from pure white, unmarked, tospecimens heavily and broadly barred with blackish brown. It is, next to theGreat Gray Owl, the largest species found in America, being 2 feet in length,fjike the Great Horned Owls,
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . Jp-. Whitt! Snowy Owl .376. Snowy Owl. Nyctea nyctea. Range.—Arctic regions, breeding within the Arctic Circle and wintering tothe northern border of the United Slates and casually farther. This very beautiful species varies in plumage from pure white, unmarked, tospecimens heavily and broadly barred with blackish brown. It is, next to theGreat Gray Owl, the largest species found in America, being 2 feet in length,fjike the Great Horned Owls, they are very strong, fearless, and rapacious birds,feeding upon hares, squirrels and smaller mammals, as well as Grouse, Ptar-migan, etc. They nest upon the ground, on banks or mossy hummocks on thedry portions of marshes, laying from two to eight eggs, white in color and witha smoother shell than those of the Great Horned Owl. Size x Data.—Point Barrow, Alaska, .June 16, 1S98. Three eggs laid in a hollow in the moss. [.Sy?.] Hawk Owl. Surnia ulula nlula. Range.—Northern portion of the Old World; accidental in
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