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B I R D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 371
The Ottawa Museum contains five skins of this owl,
including a pure white one taken north of the Capital city,
but no eggs!
377a. A M E R I C A N H A W K OWE— S u r n i a ulula caparoch
( M u l l . ) .
D r . Bell was the recipient of a female example, shot at
Fort Providence early i n A p r i l , 1885, and also of two eggs
taken from a nest found on a spruce tree i n the same quarter
on the 14th of the same month, the parent of which was seen
and identified as a hawk owl. Towards the end of May,
1885, the late M r . Joseph Mercredi, of F o n d du Lac, obtained
from an Indian the female parent and five eggs, found in
a nest built i n a tree at some distance north of his post in
Athabasca district. The contents of the eggs from both
points were quite fresh. Both specimens were forwarded
to M r . Dalgleish. In 1889 an example skin from each of
Forts Babine and St. James were secured and forwarded
to Washington.
This bird is not uncommon i n the region of Anderson
River, although only four nests were discovered there some
forty years ago. They were all built on spruce pine trees
at a f a i r l y high height from the ground, and were constructed
of small twigs, branches, and lined with dry grasses
and moss. One of them contained two young birds, aged
respectively about ten days and three weeks, together with
an addled egg. The others, however, held six eggs each,
and the fourth as many as seven. This species is one of the
A r c t i c " winterers." The parent birds were naturally very
indignant with our procedure.
According to M r . B . R . Ross it nests occasionally in
cliffs, but its usual nesting sites are probably natural cavities
i n trees, where they are obtainable, but when such are wanting,
open nests placed on the decayed tops of stumps or
among the limbs of thick and bushy conifers are used. Mr.
Raine, of Toronto, has a clutch of seven eggs and another
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| OCR | B I R D S O F N O R T H E R N C A N A D A 371 The Ottawa Museum contains five skins of this owl, including a pure white one taken north of the Capital city, but no eggs! 377a. A M E R I C A N H A W K OWE— S u r n i a ulula caparoch ( M u l l . ) . D r . Bell was the recipient of a female example, shot at Fort Providence early i n A p r i l , 1885, and also of two eggs taken from a nest found on a spruce tree i n the same quarter on the 14th of the same month, the parent of which was seen and identified as a hawk owl. Towards the end of May, 1885, the late M r . Joseph Mercredi, of F o n d du Lac, obtained from an Indian the female parent and five eggs, found in a nest built i n a tree at some distance north of his post in Athabasca district. The contents of the eggs from both points were quite fresh. Both specimens were forwarded to M r . Dalgleish. In 1889 an example skin from each of Forts Babine and St. James were secured and forwarded to Washington. This bird is not uncommon i n the region of Anderson River, although only four nests were discovered there some forty years ago. They were all built on spruce pine trees at a f a i r l y high height from the ground, and were constructed of small twigs, branches, and lined with dry grasses and moss. One of them contained two young birds, aged respectively about ten days and three weeks, together with an addled egg. The others, however, held six eggs each, and the fourth as many as seven. This species is one of the A r c t i c " winterers." The parent birds were naturally very indignant with our procedure. According to M r . B . R . Ross it nests occasionally in cliffs, but its usual nesting sites are probably natural cavities i n trees, where they are obtainable, but when such are wanting, open nests placed on the decayed tops of stumps or among the limbs of thick and bushy conifers are used. Mr. Raine, of Toronto, has a clutch of seven eggs and another |
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