. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. NYCTEA SCANDIACA : SNOWY OWL. 95 ear-tufts, generally overlooked. Facial discs large and complete. Feet densely clothed with feathers. Color white, with more or fewer dark markings, according to age, sex, or other circum- stances ; some individuals are nearly white, but the majority are fully spotted with dusky, especially on the upper parts. The general appearance, however, is unmistakable. Though an Arctic species, this is a very frequent winter visitor in New En
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. NYCTEA SCANDIACA : SNOWY OWL. 95 ear-tufts, generally overlooked. Facial discs large and complete. Feet densely clothed with feathers. Color white, with more or fewer dark markings, according to age, sex, or other circum- stances ; some individuals are nearly white, but the majority are fully spotted with dusky, especially on the upper parts. The general appearance, however, is unmistakable. Though an Arctic species, this is a very frequent winter visitor in New England, whose ap- pearance is too com- mon and too nearly regular to require any citation of spe- cial instances. In some seasons there is a sort of irruption of these birds from the north, and we hear of their capture in all quarters, they] being too conspicu- ous both in size and color to escape atten- tion. Such a case occurred in the win- ter of 1877, as re- corded by Mr. Ruthven Deane (Bull. Nutt. Club, ii, Jan., 1877, p. 9), and many other observers. The great white bird not seldom extends its winter wanderings to the Middle States. The summer home is beyond our limits, and extends to very high latitudes; but, as suggested by Mr. Boardman, the Snowy Owl may yet be found breeding in the woods of Fig. 18. — Snowy 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 Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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