. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . SNOWT N\CTEA. Char. General color pure white, with markings of dull brown orbrownish black, the abundance and shade of the spots varying with large, stout bird. Length 2^ to 27 inches. jVest. On the ground, of twigs and grass, lined with feathers. .fi^f^j-. 5 to 10; white; X 190. This very large and often snow-white species of Owl isalmost an exclusive inhabitant of the Arctic regions of bothcontinents, being common in Iceland, the Shetland Islands,Kamtschatka, Lapland, and Hudsons Bay. In these drearywild
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . SNOWT N\CTEA. Char. General color pure white, with markings of dull brown orbrownish black, the abundance and shade of the spots varying with large, stout bird. Length 2^ to 27 inches. jVest. On the ground, of twigs and grass, lined with feathers. .fi^f^j-. 5 to 10; white; X 190. This very large and often snow-white species of Owl isalmost an exclusive inhabitant of the Arctic regions of bothcontinents, being common in Iceland, the Shetland Islands,Kamtschatka, Lapland, and Hudsons Bay. In these drearywilds, surrounded by an almost perpetual winter, he dwells,breeds, and obtains his subsistence. His white robe renders S6 BIRDS OF PREY. him scarcely discernible from the overwhelming snows, wherehe reigns, like the boreal spirit of the storm. His loud, hol-low, barking growl, whowh, whoiuh, luhmuh hah, ha/t, hah,hdh^ and other more dismal cries, sound like the unearthlyban o. IJerberus; and heard amidst a region of cheerless soli-tude, his lonely and terrific voice
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