. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. STIUGID^E —THE OWLS. 77. Sum in itlitln taken oil the coast of rornwall in March, 18:^0; another was shot near Yatton, in Soinersetsliire, on a sunny afternoon in August, 1847 ; a third had previously been taken at Mary- liill,near (Ihisgow, in Decemlier, 18G3. On the Tacitic coast it lias not l)oen taken farther south than Alaska, though it is quite probable it may yet be found to be an occasional visitant in Washington Territory and Oregon, and even the northern jx at ions of California.
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. STIUGID^E —THE OWLS. 77. Sum in itlitln taken oil the coast of rornwall in March, 18:^0; another was shot near Yatton, in Soinersetsliire, on a sunny afternoon in August, 1847 ; a third had previously been taken at Mary- liill,near (Ihisgow, in Decemlier, 18G3. On the Tacitic coast it lias not l)oen taken farther south than Alaska, though it is quite probable it may yet be found to be an occasional visitant in Washington Territory and Oregon, and even the northern jx at ions of California. It remains all tlie winter in higii northern latitudes, and the instances of its having bi^cn taken even in Massachusetts, so far as is now known, are not nuuiy. Wilson only met with two si)c'cimens. Au- dubon and Niittall never met with one of these birds alive. Mr. Downes states that the TIawk Owl is very abundant in Xova Scotia in the winter timo in some years, but may not lie .seen agahi for four or five seasons. It is common in Newfoundland, where it breeds in the Caribou districts. Mr. Downes often kept living specimens in confinement, which had been taken on board the Cunard steamers off tlie coast. Mr. Boardman gives this species as resident, though rare, in the neighbor- hood of Calais, being occasionally found there in the In Oxford County, Maine, I'roi'essor A. E. Verrill says it is a common autumnal and winter visitant, and that it is (piite abundant from tiio first of November to the middle of March, l)ut not found there in the sunnner. Mr. Allen has never met with it in Western ^ Near Boston, in some seasons, it is not unconnnon, though never occurring with any frequency, and only singly. It is found througliout the State, and is probably more com- mon late in November than at any other time; several having been taken in Wcstfield, and also in llerksliire County, among the Oreen Mountains. 1 am not aware that any iia\e lieen tak
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