. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 236 !â in Called the Atnerirfln NEBTB AND EOQS OF Hoot Owl or Wood Owl, and Round-head'^d Owl. A large dark-eyed species, common to wooded lands of Eastern United States, especially bottom woods; those of swamps, along ravines and rivers where there is a heavy growth of tall timber. The loud, laughing notes of this Owl, hnard in the night, are something terriL. , and if heard about the farm-house or camp-fire will not soon be forgotten. Its (light is soft, as if on wings of down, noiseless, quick a
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 236 !â in Called the Atnerirfln NEBTB AND EOQS OF Hoot Owl or Wood Owl, and Round-head'^d Owl. A large dark-eyed species, common to wooded lands of Eastern United States, especially bottom woods; those of swamps, along ravines and rivers where there is a heavy growth of tall timber. The loud, laughing notes of this Owl, hnard in the night, are something terriL. , and if heard about the farm-house or camp-fire will not soon be forgotten. Its (light is soft, as if on wings of down, noiseless, quick and easy. Nests in hollows uf trees, in old nests of hawks and crows. In Ohio it is said to breed as early as the last of February, but I have always found it nesting in April and the first half of May. In New London county, Connecticut, Mr. C. L. Rawson has taken eggs of this Owl in February, which were deposited on a solid cake of ice in a cavity ur in the open nest; he states that of late years full clutches of eggs are deposited by the last of March. The usual time of nesting in Iowa is March and April. The same nesting place is occupied by the birds for years, even after being robbed many times. The eggs are two or three in number, very rarely four; globular, white. Between the eggs of this species and those of the Great Horned Owl there is commonly considerable difference in di- mensions in favor of the former, b«t sometimes they approach each other so closely that to identify them by size alone is impossible. The Barred Owls' eggs measure in long diameter from to , am4 In short diameter from to 368a. BABBED OWL. ^yniium tiebuloaum alUiii Ridgw. Ge*g. Dist.âFlorida, Texas, Louisiana and adjoining regions. A darker colored race found in Florida, Texas, etc. Mr. Singley states this is the commonest owl in Lee county, Texas, where it frequents almost exclusively the thick wooded bottom lands. He found seventeen nests in hollows of trees with
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