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however, bas recorded the capture of both forms at Iloulton, Maine, while according 

 to Dresser the Asiatic form does not occur in Great Britain at all, but whenever a 

 hawk-owl has (rarely) been taken there, it has proved to be in the plumage of the 

 American bird. 



The snowy-owl, Nijctca scundiaca, is a much better known bird than the preceding, 

 owing, doubtless, in jiart to its large size and snowy i)luniage, but also to tlie fact that 



FlO. WS. — Kyctea tcandiaca, suowy-owl, and Symium lapponicum, great gray-owl. 



it has a much wider range, being not uncommon in all the northern United States ni 

 winter, and having occurred even in Kansas and Texas. Occasionally it becomes 

 abundant in the United States in winter, several inv.isions similar to the 'wave' of 

 hawk-owls mentioned above lieing on record. A])parently the latest of these took 

 place during the winters of 18Gl-6'i and 187G-77. Of this last inroad, Mr. Kulhveii 

 Deane has given an account from which we e.vtract the following: — 



"About the fii-st of November, 1876, large numbers suddenly ajipeared along our 

 coast. This being the season when sportsmen and the market gunners were in jiursuit 



