. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ex, or season ; ear tufts conspicuous ; toes thinlyfeathered or bristly on top. Adults: grayphase : upper parts dull brownish gray, withshaft streaks and fine mottlings of dusky ;edge of scapulars and row of spots on edgeof wing white or creamy ; lower parts gray-ish white, with heavy shaft streaks andlight cross - lines of black. Red phase :upper parts clear rich rufous, with a traceof black shaft lines and with white scap-ular streaks and spots on edge of wi
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . ex, or season ; ear tufts conspicuous ; toes thinlyfeathered or bristly on top. Adults: grayphase : upper parts dull brownish gray, withshaft streaks and fine mottlings of dusky ;edge of scapulars and row of spots on edgeof wing white or creamy ; lower parts gray-ish white, with heavy shaft streaks andlight cross - lines of black. Red phase :upper parts clear rich rufous, with a traceof black shaft lines and with white scap-ular streaks and spots on edge of wing ;lower parts streaked and mottled with ru-fous and white, and with faint black shaftstreaks. Young : plumage barred or bandedwith grayish or whitish, without longitu-dinal markings. Length : ;, wing(, tail Distribution. - - Temperate eastern NorthAmerica, south to Georgia ; west to aboutthe 100° meridian. Nest. -- A hollow in a tree or old wood-pecker hole, 3 to 40 feet from the : usually 4 or 5, — Mammals, birds, reptiles, batrachians, fish, crustaceans, and iroin Biological Survey, U. S. Dept. ofAgriculture. Fig. 247. The common screech owl is distributed throughout the whole ofthe United States and the southern portions of the British is separable into several geographic races as is usual in specieshaving such an extensive distribution. . Their food consists ofa great variety of animal life. ... At nightfall tliej- begin theirrounds, inspecting the vicinity of farmhouses, barns, and corncribs,making trips through the orchards and nurseries, gliding silently HORNED OWLS, ETC. 183 across the meadows, or encircling the stacks of grain in search ofmice and insects. Thousands upon thousands of mice of differentkinds thus fall victims to their industry. Their economic relations,therefore, are of the greatest importance, particularly on account ofthe abundance of the species in many farming distri
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