374 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Oberholser describes this form as considerably larger than virgin- 
zanus and darker; grayish and blackish tints predominate over rufous 
ones. It differs from saturatus in having a larger bill; posterior 
lower parts paler; feet lighter colored and less heavily spotted; upper 
parts with usually less ochraceous. He gives the distribution as 
“Labrador, including at least the north coast of the Territory of 
Ungava.’’ He has examined specimens from Okkak, Makkovik, 
Hopedale, Turnavik, Lance au Loup, Fort Nascopee, Fort Chimo, 
and near Forks. 
We obtained a very good skin from the Eskimos at Hopedale. The 
Moravians said it must have been shot near there sometime during 
the previous winter. The measurements are: wing, 380 mm.; tail, 
225 mm.; exposed culmen, 43 mm.; culmen without the cere, 31 mm. 
The measurements are those of a female of this race and the coloring 
is characteristic. 
[Bubo virginianus, B. v. saturatus, B. v. pacificus. See Asio magellanicus 
heterocnemis.] 
Nyctea nyctea (Linn.). 
Snowy OWL. 
Not common permanent resident. 
The Snowy Owl occurs apparently only in winter on the southern 
coast but breeds in the northern parts. Stearns found it not rare in 
winter all along the southern coast “to Red Bay, at least.” He speaks 
of a single bird that stayed about Old Fort Island all winter and could 
not be stalked. He says that the Indians hunt this owl in pairs, one 
Indian going in one direction and attracting the bird’s attention, 
while the other crawls up to shoot it. Packard says it is common 
and breeds at Fort Chimo. Bendire mentions eggs in the National 
museum from Labrador. 
Mr. W. B. Cabot, who has made a number of trips into the interior 
of Labrador, tells us he has only once seen this bird. Mr. Schmitt 
of Nain told us that the Snowy Owl breeds in that vicinity. Low (’06) 
records that ‘“‘at Cape Dufferin on the east side of Hudson Bay, 
upwards of thirty of these birds were caught by placing fox traps on 
the top of short poles, at intervals along the coast, during the southern 
migration of the birds in October, 1901.” At Dead Island on July 
26th, we found the dried and disintegrated body of a Snowy Owl. 
