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HAWK OWL. 
the southward ; for many of the southern summer birds that 
rarely visit Pennsylvania, are yet common to the swamps and 
pine woods of New Jersey. Similarity of soil and situation, 
of plants and trees, and, consequently, of fruits, seeds, and 
insects, &c. are, doubtless, their inducements. The Summer 
Red Bird, Great Carolina Wren, Pine-creeping Warbler, 
and many others, are rarely seen in Pennsylvania, or to the 
northward, though they are common in many parts of West 
HAWK OWL — STRIX HUDSON1A Plate L. Fig. 6. 
Little Hawk Owl, Edw. 62 Lath. i. 142, No. 29 Phil. Trans. 61, 385. — Le 
Chat-huant de Canada, Briss. i. 518. — Buff. i. 391 Chouette a longue queue 
de Siberie, PI. enl. 463 Arct. Zool. p. 234, No. 123 Peale's Museum , 
No. 500. 
SURNIA FUNEREA. — Dumeril.* 
Strix (sub-gen. Surnia) funerea, Bonap. Synop. p. 35. — Strix funerea, Temm. Man. 
i. p. 86. — North. Zool. ii. p. 92. 
This is another inhabitant of both continents, a kind of equi- 
vocal species, or rather a connecting link between the Hawk 
and Owl tribes, resembling the latter in the feet, and in the 
radiating feathers round the eye and bill ; but approaching 
nearer to the former in the smallness of its head, narrowness of 
its face, and in its length of tail. In short, it seems just such a 
figure as one would expect to see generated between a Hawk 
and an Owl of the same size, were it possible for them to 
produce ; and yet is as distinct, independent, and original a 
species as any other. The figure on the plate is reduced to 
* In this we have the true form of a diurnal Owl. The head is compara- 
tively small ; facial disk, imperfect ; the ears hardly larger than in birds of 
prey, and not operculated ; the wings and tail more Hawk like, the former, as 
Wilson observes, with the webs scarcely divided at the tips. Flies by day, 
and, according to Dr Richardson, preys during winter on Ptarmigan, which it 
constantly attends in their spring migrations northward, and is even so bold, 
on a bird being killed by the hunters, as to pounce down upon it, though it 
may be unable, from its size, to carry it off. — Ed. 
