. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 375e. Dwarf Horned Owl. Bubo virginianus elachistus. Range.—Lower California. This is a similar but darker form of theHorned Owl and is very much smaller thanvirginianus. The nesting habits will be thesame, but the eggs may average smaller. BIRDS OF PREY White. Snowy Owf 376. Snowy Owl. Nyctea nyctea. Range.—Arctic regions, breeding within the Arctic Circle and wintering tothe northern border of the United States and casually farther. This ve
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . 375e. Dwarf Horned Owl. Bubo virginianus elachistus. Range.—Lower California. This is a similar but darker form of theHorned Owl and is very much smaller thanvirginianus. The nesting habits will be thesame, but the eggs may average smaller. BIRDS OF PREY White. Snowy Owf 376. Snowy Owl. Nyctea nyctea. Range.—Arctic regions, breeding within the Arctic Circle and wintering tothe northern border of the United States 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 _ tee\ in 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 c dor and witha smoother shell than those of the Croat Horned Owl. Size \ Data.—Point Barrow, Alaska, June L6, 1898. Three eggs laid in a hollow in the moss. [377-] European Hawk Owl. Surnia ulula ulula. Range.—Northern portion of tlie Old World: accidental in to the A
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