230 BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND EASTERN NEW YORK 



there is no snow about. The sexes vary in the amount of 

 brown color in the white feathers, hut the general effect is 

 always so white that there is no chance of confusing it with 

 any other owl. 



Great Horned Owl. Buho vlrginianus 



22.00 



Ad. — Head and neck speckled with hlack and tawnj-; rest 

 of the upper parts speckled with graj'; collar across breast 

 white; rest of the lower parts tawny, barred with black; disk 

 tawny; ear-tufts nearly two inches long, black and tawny; eyes 

 yellow. 



Nest, in trees, often a deserted hawk's or crow's nest. Eggs, 

 white. 



The Great Horned Owl is a permanent resident of New 

 York and ISTew England ; it is found only in extensive tracts 

 of woodland, particularly where swamps give shelter to 

 hares and grouse, on -which it feeds. Its common call is a 

 deep-voiced hoot, made up of a number of syllables. It 

 differs from the cry of the Barred Owl in keeping on the 

 same note to the end, and being less regular in form and 

 accent. It may be written thus : Whoo', hoo-hoo, hod, hod. 

 If discovered in the daytime, it may be readily identified by 

 its great size, prominent ear-tufts, and broad white collar. 



Screech Owl. Megasco2)s asio 

 9.40 



Ad. — Either bright reddish-brown, or delicate brownish-gray, 

 streaked with black, the two phases of color having nothing to do 

 with sex or age; two ''ears,^^ tufts of feathers about an inch long, 

 on the sides of the head. 



Nest, in a hole in a tree. Eggs, white. 



The Screech Owl is a common permanent resident of 

 New York and New England, more common in the southern 

 portion of its range, and absent from the mountainous and 



