SNOWY OWL 371 



vessels, sometimes as far as 200 or 300 miles from land. Doubtless 

 many have perished thus in heavy storms or thick fogs. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere; migration 

 irregular or of the vagrant type. 



Breeding range. — In North America the snowy owl breeds north to 

 Alaska (Point Hope, Point Barrow, Camden Bay, and probably 

 Demarcation Point); Yukon (Herschel Island); northern Franklin 

 (Cape Kellet, Bay of Mercy, Winter Harbor, Fort Conger, Grinnell 

 Land, and Cape Sheriden) ; and probably northern Greenland (Thank 

 God Harbor). East to probably Greenland (Thank God Harbor, Etah, 

 Umanak, and Frederikshaab) ; Labrador (Hebron and Okkak); and 

 Quebec (Old Fort Island). South to Quebec (Old Fort Island and 

 Fort Chimo); northeastern Manitoba (Fort Churchill); northwestern 

 Keewatin (Ogden Bay); northwestern Mackenzie (Warren Point); 

 and Alaska (Nulato, Hooper Bay, Ugak ^ay, and Hall Island). 

 West to Alaska (Hall Island, Nome, Cape Prince of Wales, Diomede 

 Islands, and Point Hope). 



Winter range. — Occasionally in winter this owl will remain north 

 nearly or quite to the limits of its breeding range, as Alaska (Bethel, 

 Pish River, and Humphrey Point); Franklin (Bay of Mercy, Point 

 Kennedy, and Bellot Strait); and northern Greenland (Bowdoin 

 Bay). On the other hand, it irregularly occurs as far south as the 

 Central United States. In some of the southernmost of these States 

 the records are so numerous that, while still necessarily classified as 

 an irregular visitant, such areas must be included in the winter range. 



On this basis, the winter range extends north to southern Alaska, 

 (Nushagak) ; northwestern British Columbia (Bennett) ; southwestern 

 Mackenzie (Fort Simpson); northeastern Manitoba (Fort Churchill); 

 and southeastern Labrador (Red Bay). East to Labrador (Red Bay) ; 

 southeastern Newfoundland (St. Johns); Nova Scotia (Sable Island, 

 Halifax, and Yarmouth); Maine (Dover, Richmond, and Portland); 

 Massachusetts (Gloucester, Boston, and Chatham); Rhode Island 

 (Newport and Block Island); New York (Amagansett and Montauk 

 Point); and New Jersey (Elizabeth, Princeton, and Cape May). 

 South to New Jersey (Cape May) ; rarely Delaware (Milford) ; Mary- 

 land (Baltimore and Hagerstown); Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and 

 rarely Connellsville) ; Ohio (Oberlin and Sandusky); Indiana (Rich- 

 mond and Bloomington) ; northern Illinois (Danville, Philo, Urbana, 

 and Evanston) ; Missouri (St. Louis, Saline County, and Jasper Coun- 

 ty); Kansas (Manhattan and Ellis); Colorado (Denver); rarely 

 southern Idaho (Birch Creek and Meridian); and Oregon (Camp 

 Harney, Burns, and Sheridan). West to Oregon (Sheridan and 



