. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 245 rtlons of er to the mudas. ntinents. immacu- spots of a bird of ations as regions, ry abun- ecially in Eastern owy Owl nuskrats, d, as the Lurnal, it aytime as probably , Canada, vick, as it Labrador, months in and other lestlng on y parts of letter au- and nidi- hat of the ! from his American breeding in North t latitude .he Arctic ed at the explorers luring the portions.** is species on July 8. )nger, and lept by us rt Conger ped out of center of rom three In color, e av
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 245 rtlons of er to the mudas. ntinents. immacu- spots of a bird of ations as regions, ry abun- ecially in Eastern owy Owl nuskrats, d, as the Lurnal, it aytime as probably , Canada, vick, as it Labrador, months in and other lestlng on y parts of letter au- and nidi- hat of the ! from his American breeding in North t latitude .he Arctic ed at the explorers luring the portions.** is species on July 8. )nger, and lept by us rt Conger ped out of center of rom three In color, e average '. sn. [377.] HAWK OWL. Surnta ulula (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Arctic portions of the Old World. Casual in Alaska (St. Michael's). Mr. F. M. Turner obtained several specimens of this species in the vicinity of St. Michael's, Alaska, while on duty there in connection with the U. S. Signal Service during the years 1874 to 1881 which gives the Hawk Owl of Europe a place in our avifauna. It is a larger bird than the American Hawk Owl. Dresser in his magnificent work on "Birds of Europe" says: "The Hawk Owl is a northern species, being spread over the whole of Scandinavia and Si- beria; it visits more southern countries only In winter and then very sparingly, but has not yet been found on the shores of the Mediterranean. According to Collett It is very widely distributed throughout Norway, pre- ferring the sub-Alpine regions to the low country; it is tolerably numerous in the sub-Alpine woods of Northern Sweden and Norway, common in Lapland and Finland, occasionally visiting Denmark in winter; said to have nested in East ; The bird nests in hollows of de< <.yed pine trees, the lining of the nest being simply the powdered wood or rottien chips of the tree itself. The eggs are from five to nine In number, white in color, smooth and glossy; in shape like those of the Short-eared Owl. The breeding varies from the middle of April to the end of Ju
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