. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. White This handsome mottled and barred, gray and American Hawk Owl '''**'' O*'' "'*«•** readily be mlsUken for a American MawK-uwi HH^fk. because of his Hawk-like appearance and long rounded tall. They are very active birds, especially In the day time, for they are more diurnal than nocturnal; their food Is mostl" of small rodents, and also small birds. They nest either In the tops of large fit .I
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. White This handsome mottled and barred, gray and American Hawk Owl '''**'' O*'' "'*«•** readily be mlsUken for a American MawK-uwi HH^fk. because of his Hawk-like appearance and long rounded tall. They are very active birds, especially In the day time, for they are more diurnal than nocturnal; their food Is mostl" of small rodents, and also small birds. They nest either In the tops of large fit .I'ees, in hollows of stumps, or. In some cases, upon the ground. When In trees their nosts are made of twigs, leaves and weeds, and sometimes lined with moss and feathers; they lay from three to eight white eggs, size x Data.—Labrador, May 3, 1899. Five eggs. Nest In the top of a dead tree, 15 feet from the ground. 378. BuRHowiNo Owl. Speotifto cunicularia hj/pogaa. Range.—Western North America from the Mississippi Valley west to California; north to the southern parts of British America and south to Central America. These peculiar birds are wholly different in plumage, form and habits from any other American Owls. They can readily be recognized by their long, slender and scantily feathered legs. Their plumage is brownlsli. spotted with white above, and white, barred with brown below; length 10 Inches. They nest, generally In large communities in burrows in the ground, usually deserted Prairie Dog holes. While generally but a single pair occupy one burrow, as many as twenty have been found nesting together. Sometimes the burrows are unlined, and again may have a carpet of grasses and feathers. Their white eggs generally number from six to ten; size x Data.—Sterling, Kans., May 7, 1899. Nest of bits of dry dung at the end of a deserted Prairie Dog White 238. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have
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