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THE HAWKS AND OWLS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Table showing the results of examinations of 127 stomachs of the Great Horned Owl 

 ( Bubo Virginian ns) — Continued. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Poultry 



or game 



birds. 



Other birds. 



Mammals. 



Miscellaneous. 



Yavapai County, Ariz . 

 Camp Verde, Ariz 



May 20, 1887 



Dec. 12,1887 

 Dec 13,1887 

 Feb. 15,1888 

 Mar. 26, 1888 

 Apr. 11, 1888 



Apr. 28,1890 



Sept, 18, 1889 

 Oct. 27,1889 

 Nov. 18, 1889 



Dec. 17,1889 

 Dec. 28,1889 

 Feb. 17,1890 

 Feb. 26,1890 



Sept, 30, 1890 



Oct. 28,1888 

 Mav 31,1885 

 ... .'do 















Cotton rats 



Small rodents... 



matter. 



Do 









Do 









Do 





;:;;;;;;;;;;. :: 



Do 



Do 







Muskrat, wood 



rat. 

 Flying squirrel, 



rabbit. 





Morristown, N. J 









Clay County, S. Dak... 

 Do 



Fowl . . . 











Rabbit. 





Vermillion, Clay 

 County, S. Dak. 

 Do 



Wild 



i 





duck. 





Do. 



Do 







Muskrat 





Do 







Do 



P r airie 

 hen. 





Meadow mouse . 



2 pocket goph- 

 ers, 1 white- 

 looted mouse, 

 2 meadow 

 mice. 





Saw Tooth Lake, Id- 







aho. 















Squirrel 





Do 







Fish. 



Union County, Ky 



Do . .1... 



Apr. 3,1890 

 Apr. 26, 1890 

 Nov. 22,1891 







Kabbit. . 









do 









. . do . . 





Lancaster County, Pa. . 

 Do 



Nov. 10.1891 





do . 





Dec. 15,1881 

 May 30,1892 

 Mar. 16, 1892 

 Julv 14, 1891 

 Mar. 26, 1892 

 Sept. — , 1892 







. . do . . 





Marshall Hall, Md 









Dung beetle. 



Sandy Spring, Md 



Walker Basin, Cal 













Wood rat 



Scorpion. 

 Empty. 



AVorcester, Mass 







Montgomery County, 

 Md. 



Fowl 













Summary. — Of 127 stomachs examined, 31 contained poultry or gamebirds; 8, other birds; 13, mice; 

 65, other mammals ; 1, a scorpion; 1, fish; 10 insects, and 17 were empty. 



SNOWY OWL. 



Nyctea nyctea. 



This large and handsome Owl is circumpolar in its distribution, in- 

 habiting the arctic portions of the northern hemisphere in summer and 

 migrating south in winter. In North America it is rare west of the Kocky 

 Mountains and south of our northern border, but in the East it is 

 sometimes common as far south as the fortieth parallel, and as an acci- 

 dental visitor nearly reaches the southern border of the United States. 

 In Europe and Asia it extends south either regularly or accidentally to 

 the British Isles, Holland, Belgium, Germany, southern Siberia, Tur- 

 kestan, and Afghanistan. 



It must not be understood that all or even any considerable portion 

 of these Owls migrate very far south of their arctic home, for the birds 

 which reach the United States or Southern Canada are but a small frac- 

 tion of those which pass the winter near the northern line of trees. Al- 

 though from some unknown cause, presumably the lack of food, there 



