. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . CoueS. Chars. Above, grayish-brown, with white, black-edged spots; below,tawny white, variegated with reddish-brown, chiefly disposed inbars ; face and throat whitish ; crissum and legs mostly un-marked ; quills with numerous paired tawny white spots, andtail-feathers barred with the same ; bill, grayish-yellow; claws,black. Length, long ; wings, ; tail, Notufts ; facial disc imperfect; tarsi very long, extensively denuded,bristly like the toes. Prairies and open portions of the UnitedStates west of
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . CoueS. Chars. Above, grayish-brown, with white, black-edged spots; below,tawny white, variegated with reddish-brown, chiefly disposed inbars ; face and throat whitish ; crissum and legs mostly un-marked ; quills with numerous paired tawny white spots, andtail-feathers barred with the same ; bill, grayish-yellow; claws,black. Length, long ; wings, ; tail, Notufts ; facial disc imperfect; tarsi very long, extensively denuded,bristly like the toes. Prairies and open portions of the UnitedStates west of the Mississippi; Florida. Though we trust our outline of the New EnglandOwls is not a chapter of accidents, the occurrence of lOO • STRIGID^ : OWLS. the Burrowing Owl in our midst, with note of which wefinish consideration of the night-birds of prey, certainlybelongs to such a category. One individual of thissingular species made its appearance at Newburyport,in Massachusetts, May 4, 1875, at which time and placeit was done to death by Messrs. H. Joyce and J. Fig. 19. — Bills and Feet of Burrowing Owls. Clifford, as originally stated by Mr. Ruthven Deane inthe Rod and Gun newspaper, vol. vi. May 15, 1875— as duly repeated by Dr. T. M. Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc,xvii, 1875, p. 444; by Mr. H. D. Minot, B. N. E., 1877,p. 343; by Mr. J. A. Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., 1878, —and as here again said. Burrowing Owls occur inFlorida, and are very common on the Western plainswhere they live in prairie-dog towns as well as in com-munities by themselves. Varieties of the same speciesinhabit portions of the West Indies and South America. C. CYANEUS HUDSONIUS : MARSH HAWK, OR HARRIER. lOI Family FALCONID^: Hawks. MARSH HAWK, OR HARRIER. Circus cyaneus hudsonius (Z.) Schl. Chars. Face with an imperfect disc, somewhat as in the Owls, towhich this genus is related. Bill weak, with a lobe on the cut-ting edge of the upper mandible, but no tooth. Wings, tail, andfeet long for the bulk
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