THE CANADA OWL. 







are fully fledged, to take them along with her on to the 

 highest fjalls. 



Colonel B. Aminoff describes a somewhat singular Chasse 

 after one of these birds. " During a hare-hunt on the 25th 

 of February, near to the town of Orebro," says the gallant 

 officer, " we fell in with a snowy owl. The dogs started 

 off in pursuit and in full cry, and chased the bird in a 

 sort of half-circle, nearly a (Swedish) mile, during which 

 time it very frequently attacked them. This amusing 

 spectacle continued from ten o'clock in the forenoon, until 

 three in the afternoon, when Corporal Blom, who con- 

 cealed himself behind a stump, had the good fortune to 

 shoot the bird. During the hunt it seldom took refuge 

 in a tree, but rested occasionally either on the top of a 

 naked rock, or a boulder in the open country ; but in 

 such situations it was impossible for us with all our endea- 

 vours to approach it nearer than six or seven hundred paces, 

 before it again took wing." 



The Canada Owl, or Hawk Owl (Hok~Uggla, or Hawk 

 Owl, Sw. ; N.funerea, Jen.), though seldom seen with us, is 

 tolerably abundant in the more northern parts of Scandi- 

 navia. In its habits this bird much resembles the falcon 

 tribe. It hunts in the middle of the day, and that without 

 being in any way inconvenienced by the sun's rays. In the 

 rapidity of its flight and in courage, it is more like a hawk 

 than an owl. It commonly perches on the very summit of 

 a lofty spruce-pine, with its tail drooping as it were ; but at 

 times it elevates it in like manner with the cuckoo, which 

 bird, when at a distance, and when in this position, it much 

 resembles. It is but little shy. 



k~lie Canada Owl makes its nest, formed of twigs, lichens, 



