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THE HAWKS AND OWES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



DESCEIPTION. 



Lai\£ie and heavy. Ear tufts very eoiispicuoiis. Plimuige irregularly 

 varied with butty, tawuy, whitish, aud dusky, one or other of these 

 colors predominating in tlie ditt'erent races. The butty and tawny 

 tints are most marked in the typical bird, the dusky in the dusky 

 Horned Owl, and the Avhite in the Arctic bird. 



Length: 18 to 25 inches (45G to GSo"*'"); extent, 49 to 57 inches (1245 

 to 1448™'"); wing, 14.50 to 10 inches (368 to 406'"">); tail, 8.25 to 9 

 inches (210 to 229"'°>). 



Table shoiving the results of esaniinations of 127 stomdchs of the Great Homed Owl 



{Bubo virginlanus) . 



Locality. 



Date. 



Poultry 



or game 



birds. 



Chattanooga, Tenn... 

 New London, Wis . . . 

 Cliester County, Pa . . 



Adairsville, Ga 



Lockport, N. Y 



Do 



East Hartford, Conn . 

 .Sing Sing, if. T 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Paint Eock, Tex 



Dec. 25, 1885 

 Oct. 25,1885 1 

 May 11, 1886 ! 



I May 20, 1886 

 j Jan. 2, 1887 



Quail . 



Guinea 

 fowl. 



Other birds. 



Mammals. 



Miscellaneous. 



Fox squirrel. . . 



Sandy Spring. Md 



Cliester County, Pa . .. 



Do '. 



Dakota County, Nebr. 

 Kliiiira, K. Y 



Do 



Corning N. Y 



Tyrone. T^. Y 



Eimira, X. Y 



Breespport, N. Y. 



Canton, Pa 



Ticiga, Pa 



Gaines, Pa 



Eimira, K. Y 



Do 



Big Flats, N. Y . 

 Erin, N. Y 



Sandy Spring, Md- . . 



Kale(gh,N. C-- 



Ea.st Hartford, Conn. 

 Butt'alo Gap, S. Dak . 



Sandy Spring, Md. . 

 Bridger Pass, Wyo . 



; June 16, 1887 

 : Jan. 19, 1883 



July 9,1884 

 Noy. 12, 1884 

 Feb. 26,1885 

 Apr. 23, 1887 



Mar. 12. 1887 

 Fel). 15,1886 

 Sept.— ,1878 

 July — , 18G9 

 Oct. 4, 1885 

 Oct. 7, 1880 



Aug. 15, 1884 

 Sept. 4, 1886 

 Nov. 5.1885 

 Nov. 2.1880 

 Dec. 13, 1884 

 Dec. 15,1884 

 Dec. 29,1885 



Jan. 3.1881 



Jan. 5, 1885 



Jan. 17. 1886 ! 



Jan. 29, 1887 : 



Apr. 7,1888 

 Mar. !). 18SS 

 Nov. 21). 1887 I 

 .Tunc 'JO, 1888 ' 



Fowl . . . ! 



..-do.... 



..-do.... 



Guinea j 



fowl, i 



Fowl . - - ' Robin - 



Pigeon - . 

 Poultry . 



Rabbit. 



Cooper's hawk, 

 1 a r k 11 n <• h, 

 mocking bird, i 



Shrew . 

 Rabbit. 



Meadow mouse. 

 Rabbit 



Beetle. 



Ruffed 

 grouse. 



(TO])lier 30 Insects. 



Skunk I 



I 



Poultry 



.-.do--". 



Gray siiuirrel. 



Ruffed 

 grouse. 

 Poultry. 



Rabbit 



Skunk - - - - 

 Weasel (?) 



Poultry- !- 

 Ruffed i- 

 grouse. ! 



Rabbit. 

 do 



Empty. 



Do. 



Sept. 3. 1888 

 Sept. !), 1888 



Virginia i Oct. 23, 1888 



Buckhannon,W. Va . . 



Fairmont, W.Va 



Virginia 



Suflolk county, N. Y- . 



Winnipeg, Manitoba . 



Do 



Aug. 16, 1888 

 Sept. 22. 1888 

 Nov. 22, 1888 

 Ai)ril 3. 1889 

 Feb. — . 1889 

 ..-.do 



Rabbit, meadow i berth's. 

 tiioiKsc. grass- 

 hopper mouse. 



R a t, house , Dung bfetlo. 

 mou.se, mead- L 

 ow mouse. f 



Wood rat, mead-. Cuterebra. 

 ow mouse, ( 

 white-footeil ' 

 mouse. 



Rabbit, silver- 

 haired bat. 



Rabbit 



Do 



Rabbit 



Have 



Red-backed 



mouse, shrew. 



Hare 



Spider, katydid. 



Mavbeetle. 



Snake. 



Empty. 



