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Title: Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Bailey, Florence Merriam, b. 1863
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e terms with the Owls, and, judg-ing from the old Pigeons nests, I presume thePigeons had actually nested and reared youngthere. This seems to show the food of this Owlto be almost exclusively mice and rats, and provesit to be a species of the greatest economic value.It is interesting to know that a pair of thesebirds have for years nested at intervals in one orother of the towers of the Smithsonian Institu-tion at Washington. Snowy Owl; Nyctea nyctea.(Plate XXVII.) Geographic Distribution. — Northern part of northern hem-isphere ; breeds from Labrador northward, in North Americato Arctic Ocean, and wanders southward in winter regularlyto the northern United States, and occasionally to Texas andCalifornia. A great deal of interest is excited by the ap-pearance of a Snowy Owl in the neighborhoodin winter, for it is a large bird, dressed in thewhite feathers that enable it to come unawaresupon its prey in its arctic home. Audubon givesa most interesting account of the way he saw these
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Plate XXVI. — BARN OWL Upper parts yellowish brown, washed with gray ; under partswhite, washed with huffy and finely spotted with black;brownish ring around facial disk. Lengthy 18 inches. > — M^-

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