. Birds of New York . November 16, 1877. Mr Ashburyreports 2 males. Conquest, November 27, 1902. 128 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM In habits the Hawk owl is the most diurnal of the family. It isusually seen watching for its prey from some exposed perch and, whendisturbed, pitches downward and flies rapidly away over the tops of thegrass or bushes, gliding abruptly upward when alighting. Its note is a shrill cry uttered generally when the bird is on the wing (Fisher). 1910. Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea (Bonaparte) Burrowing Owl Strix hypogaea Bonaparte. Amer. Om. 1825. 1172Speotyto cunicularia hypogae
. Birds of New York . November 16, 1877. Mr Ashburyreports 2 males. Conquest, November 27, 1902. 128 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM In habits the Hawk owl is the most diurnal of the family. It isusually seen watching for its prey from some exposed perch and, whendisturbed, pitches downward and flies rapidly away over the tops of thegrass or bushes, gliding abruptly upward when alighting. Its note is a shrill cry uttered generally when the bird is on the wing (Fisher). 1910. Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea (Bonaparte) Burrowing Owl Strix hypogaea Bonaparte. Amer. Om. 1825. 1172Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 177. No. 378 speotyto, Gr., axeo?, cave, and tutw, a hoot owl; cuniculdria, Lat., a burrower; hypo-gaea, Lat.,^Gr. uxoysto?, underground Description. Small; no ear tufts;legs long and scantily feathered; feet bareexcept for a few bristles. Upper partsgrayish brown profusely spotted withwhite; under parts whitish spotted withbrown in broken bars. Length inches; extent 23; Distribution. The little burrowingowl is purely an accidental visitant inNew York. There is only one record ofits occurrence, a specimen taken in NewYork City, and reported in Forest &Stream 5, 4, August 12, 1875. It hadwandered far from its home, for thespecies inhabits the Western Statesfrom British Columbia and Manitobasouth to Louisiana and Panama. Itlives mostly in the burrows of Prairie dogs and other rodents, but thesubspecies which lives in southern Florida is said to excavate its ownnesting holes. m^t/f^lBI^ Burrowing owl. Speotyto cunicularia hypo-gaea (Bonaparte). From specimen in Am. Mus. , i nat. size BIRDS OF NEW YORK 129
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