Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Range (From Labrador and Hudson Bay)

"From Labrador and Hudson Bay; west through the interior to Alaska, and south probably through all the higher regions of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada Mountains; south to Arizona (San Francisco Mountain)" (Bendire). 376. Nyctea nyctea (Linn.). SNOWY OWL. Ad. 8. --Size large; no ear-tufts; white, more or less barred with dark grayish brown or fuscous; legs and feet heavily feathered; eyes yellow. Ad. q. - Similar, but more heavily barred. L., 25.00; W., 17.00; T., 9.50; B., 1.50.

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