. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . nest of grass half way up a pine-tree, and lays 74 BIRDS OF PREY. 2 eggs in the month of May. It feeds on mice and probably inhabits all the forests of the fur countries fromGreat Slave Lake to the United States. On the banks of theSaskatchewan it is so common that its voice is heard almostevery night by the traveller wherever he may select his inhabits the woods along the streams of the Rocky Moun-tains down to the Oregon, and betrays but little suspicionwhen approached. Ric
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's Manual . nest of grass half way up a pine-tree, and lays 74 BIRDS OF PREY. 2 eggs in the month of May. It feeds on mice and probably inhabits all the forests of the fur countries fromGreat Slave Lake to the United States. On the banks of theSaskatchewan it is so common that its voice is heard almostevery night by the traveller wherever he may select his inhabits the woods along the streams of the Rocky Moun-tains down to the Oregon, and betrays but little suspicionwhen approached. Richardsons Owl is usually a rare winter visitor to the MaritimeProvinces ; but Mr. C. B. Cory found it common and breeding onthe Magdalene Islands, and a few examples have been taken inNew Brunswick in summer. It is common on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence,though rare near the city of Quebec; it occurs sparingly in winteralong the northern border of New England and in southern Onta-rio, and occasionally straggles to Massachusetts and reports it common in BARN OWL. Strix pratincola. Char. Colors extremely variable. Above, usually yellowish tawny ororange brown, clouded with darker tints and spotted with white ; beneath,bulBsh with dark spots; face white, tinged with tawny; bill examples have but little marking on the back, and the face andlower parts are pure white. Easily distinguished from other Owls bypeculiar facial disc. Length 15 to 21 inches. Aest. In barn or church tower or hollow tree, — usually the last. Theeggs are laid upon a mat of loosely laid twigs and weed-stems or grass. Eggs. 3-11; white; X There is scarcely any part of the world in which this com-mon species is not found ; extending even to both sides of theequator, it is met with in New Holland, India, and Brazil. Itis perhaps nowhere more rare than in this part of the UnitedStates, and is only met with in Pennsylvania and New Jerseyin cold
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