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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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rreda remarkable invasion by snow owls, reported from locali-ties as diverse as southern Michigan and Long Island.They were especially abundant in Ontario, and were muchsought for their phmiage. According to Mr. RuthvenDeane, * a Mr. Owens, taxidermist, living near Mooresville,Middlesex County, received and mounted twenty-two speci-mens during the winter, and commented on the fact thatthirteen years ago he prepared exactly the same number,not having handled a single specimen during the interim.Mr. Deane collected information of more than 430 of theseowls that were killed during this one flight. The home of the snowy owl is on the immense mossand lichen covered tundras of the boreal regions, where itleads an easy existence, finding an abundant supply of foodduring the short Arctic summers. Hunting its prey at allhours, it subsists principally upon the lemming, and it issaid to be always abundant wherever these rodents arefound in numbers. Other small rodents are also caught, SNOWY OWL.
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AMERICAN hawk: OWL. (Surnia ulula caparoch). 4 Life-size. 0, 0«IC»GO BIRDS OF PREY 211 as well as ptarmigan, ducks, and other waterfowl, and eventhe Arctic hare, an animal fully as heavy again as theowls. (Bendire.) This great bird nests on the ground, laying from threeto ten eggs. HAWK OWL The Hawk Owl is a handsome bird, shaped after themanner of our falcons, but the position of the eyes, shapeof the tail, and habits of the bird are more in keeping withthose of owls. In habits, plumage, and structure, it is theconnecting link between hawks and owls. Its flight isswift and hawk-like, but noiseless; however, these birds seereadily in daylight and are abroad in midday, even in ourbrightest weather. Their favorite haunts are in the north-em portions of both continents, and only during the coldestweather do they find their way southward to the northernborder of the United States. Their food is chiefly smallrodents. In the fur country about Hudson Bay and theAnderson River region these

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