lOO • STRIGID^ : OWLS. 



the Burrowing Owl in our midst, with note of which we 

 finish consideration of the night-birds of prey, certainly 

 belongs to such a category. One individual of this 

 singular species made its appearance at Newburyport, 

 in Massachusetts, May 4, 1875, at which time and place 

 it was done to death by Messrs. H. Joyce and J. K. 



Fig. 19. — Bills and Feet of Burrowing Owls. 



Clifford, as originally stated by Mr. Ruthven Deane in 

 the "Rod and Gun" newspaper, vol. vi. May 15, 1875 

 — as duly repeated by Dr. T. M. Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc, 

 xvii, 1875, p. 444; by Mr. H. D. Minot, B. N. E., 1877, 

 p. 343; by Mr. J. A. Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., 1878, p. 

 21 — and as here again said. Burrowing Owls occur in 

 Florida, and are very common on the Western plains 

 where they live in prairie-dog towns as well as in com- 

 munities by themselves. Varieties of the same species 

 inhabit portions of the West Indies and South America. 



