. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 188 KEY AND DESCRIPTION brown. This is a night-flying bird, passing its time during the day among dense trees. It gets its name from a resemblance of its notes to the noise made in filing a saw. Mice form its main food. (Acadian Owl.) Length, 8 ; wing, 5^ (5|-5|-) ; tail, 2} ; tarsus, f ; culmen, f. North America; breeding from the Middle States northward (south to Mexico, in the mountains), and wandering irregularly southward in winter. 7. Screech Owl (37
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. 188 KEY AND DESCRIPTION brown. This is a night-flying bird, passing its time during the day among dense trees. It gets its name from a resemblance of its notes to the noise made in filing a saw. Mice form its main food. (Acadian Owl.) Length, 8 ; wing, 5^ (5|-5|-) ; tail, 2} ; tarsus, f ; culmen, f. North America; breeding from the Middle States northward (south to Mexico, in the mountains), and wandering irregularly southward in winter. 7. Screech Owl (373. small, night-flying owl, Megascops asio). — A very common, with conspicuous ear tufts, and weird, whistling notes. It is found in varie- ties of two colors, distinctly reddish and distinctly grayish. The back is finely streaked and dappled; the under parts are white-streaked, blotched and barred with dark colors, giving them a varie- gated appearance. The young is more regularly barred than the adult. This owl prefers orchards near human habi- tations, to the wild woods, for its home. Its food consists of insects, mice, and birds. Length, 71-10 ; wing, 6| (6-7|) ; tail, 31; culmen, f. North America from the Plains eastward, south to Georgia, and north to New Brunswick and Minnesota ; practically resi- dent throughout, The Florida Screech Owl (373a. J/, ), of South Carolina to Louisiana, mainly near the coast, is a smaller bird, with the colors deeper, and the markings more distinct. Wing, 6 ; tail, 3. The Texas Screech Owl (373b. M. a. trichdpsis), of southern Texas to Central America, has the small size of the Florida bird, and the two phases of color of the common screech owl, but is more regularly streaked and barred ; thus it lacks the blotchy appearance which is so characteristic of the northern form. 8. Great Horned Owl (375. Bubo virginihnus).— A very large, yellow-eyed, long-eared, finely mottled, brownish owl, usually marked with a white collar. The
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