. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE WHITE OWL. 89 yards, and at a very low elevation. K observed, it seeks the nearest covert, and dives so deeply among the brushwood that it is not easily seen, and cannot be driven out if the covert N .'''^^m' I 8H0KT-EAEED Llus Oraehyotus. should be of any great extent. Its food consists chiefly of mice and birds ; and Mr. Yarrell mentions that he has discovered in the stomach of a Short-eared Owl the remains of a bat and a half-grown rat. The Great Geat Owl (Ulula cinere
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE WHITE OWL. 89 yards, and at a very low elevation. K observed, it seeks the nearest covert, and dives so deeply among the brushwood that it is not easily seen, and cannot be driven out if the covert N .'''^^m' I 8H0KT-EAEED Llus Oraehyotus. should be of any great extent. Its food consists chiefly of mice and birds ; and Mr. Yarrell mentions that he has discovered in the stomach of a Short-eared Owl the remains of a bat and a half-grown rat. The Great Geat Owl (Ulula cinerea). Tliis is much the largest of American Owls, indeed of any known species. Its total length is thirty inches; extent of wing, about forty inches. This is properly an arctic bird. It has been rarely captured, or seen in New England or the Northern States. The small size of its eyes indicate its diurnal habit. The feet are small, also, which naturally point to adaptation for small prey. The head has the appearance of being unusually large ; the plumage has, however, a large share of the space. The Baered Owl [Strix nehulosa) is quite nearly related to the preceding. It has the same soft, cinereous plumage. Its habitat is throiighout New England, west to Missouri, and south to the Rio Grande. It is remarkable for its soft, rapid, and noiseless flight; the great breadth of wings giving it extraordinary j^ower. In the South it is caUed the Hoot Owl. There are twenty-six species of Owls in North America, besides several varieties having variations of marking, and differing somewhat in size. The best knovm of the Owls is the White, Baen, or Soeeech Owl, by either of which appellations the bird is familiarly known everywhere. This delicately colored and soft-plumed bird is always foimd near human habitations, and is generally in the vicinity of farm-yards, where it loves to dwell, not for the sake of devouring the young poultry, but of eating the various mice which make such havoc in
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