. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. SHORT-EARED OWL. Asio AcciprrpoNus. Char. Above, mottled with dark brown, tawny, and bufEsh white; below, paler ; feet feathered ; ear-tufts inconspicuous. Some examples are much paler, as if the colors had faded. Length about 15 inches. iVest. On the ground amid tall grass, and composed of a few twigs and a few feathers. Eggs. 3-6 ; white and oval; X This is another of those nocturnal wanderers which now and then arrive amongst us from the northern regions, where they u
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual. Birds; Birds. SHORT-EARED OWL. Asio AcciprrpoNus. Char. Above, mottled with dark brown, tawny, and bufEsh white; below, paler ; feet feathered ; ear-tufts inconspicuous. Some examples are much paler, as if the colors had faded. Length about 15 inches. iVest. On the ground amid tall grass, and composed of a few twigs and a few feathers. Eggs. 3-6 ; white and oval; X This is another of those nocturnal wanderers which now and then arrive amongst us from the northern regions, where they usually breed. It comes to Hudson's Bay from the South about May, where it makes a nest of dry grass on the ground, and, as usual, has white eggs. After rearing its brood it de- parts for the South in September, and in its migrations has been met \vith as far as New Jersey, near Philadelphia, where, according to Wilson, it arrives in November and departs in April. Pennant remarks that it has been met with in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Chamberlain, Montague, 1844-1924. Boston, Little, Brown
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