Identifier: birdsofnewenglan00insamu (find matches)
Title: The birds of New England and adjacent states : containing descriptions of the birds of New England ... together with a history of their habitats... ; with illustrations of many species of the birds, and accurate figures of their eggs
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston : Noyes, Holmes and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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days to bright ones, and is mostactive just before a storm. Audubon says that this Owlcaptures living fish in the water by standing quietly by themargin, and seizing its prey with its claws, as it appearsnear the surface: whether this is a regular habit or not, Icannot say. I never saw one do so; and I have conversedwith several hunters who have shot numbers of specimens,and they all were ignorant of such a fact. Of the breeding habits of this Owl, we are ignorant.The Hudsons Bay, and other northern countries, are itssummer homes. Wheelwright, in his Spring and Sum-mer in Lapland, gives the only description of its nest andeggs accessible to me at present. He says : — The egg of the Snowy Owl measures 2^ inches in length, andIf inches in breadth : its color is pure-white. The nest is nothingmore than a large boll of reindeer moss, placed on tlie ledge of abare fell. The old birds guard it most jealously ; iu fact, the Lap-landers often kill them with a stick when they are robbing the
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Snowy Owl, Nyctea nivea.. Gray THE HAWK OWL. 79 nest, which they do upon every occasion that presents itself. TheSnowy Owl will occasionally make its nest on the large turf-hillocksin some of the mosses. SUENIA, Ddmeeil Surnia, Dumeril, Zoologie Analytique, 34 (1806). General form rather long, but robust; size medium; head moderate, without ear-tufts ; facial disc obsolete; bill moderate, curved from the base, covered with pro-jecting plumes; wings long; tail long, wide, graduated; legs rather short, and withthe toes densely feathered; contains one species only, which inhabits the arcticregions of both continents. SUENIA VLULA. —Bonaparte. The Hawk Owl; Day Owl. Strtx uMa, Linnfeus. Syst. Nat., I. 133 (1766). Strix fune7-ea,\ Gm. Bonap. Syn. 25. Nutt., I. 115. Aud. Orn. Biog.,rV. 550. Strix Eudsonica. Wilson, VI. 64. Description. Wings rather long; first three quills incised on their inner webs; tail long, withits central feathers about two inches longer than the outer; tarsi and to

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