 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 466 páginas
...common horned owl, and as such it is described in the Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. vol. vi. page 211. Ihaye as yet examined but three specimens. The specimen in...carry off from one farm, in the space of a month, not leas than twenty-seven individuals of various kind* of poultry, before it wag shot. SURNIUM CINEREUM,... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1853 - 482 páginas
...common horned owl, and as such it is described in the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. vol. vi. page 211. I have as yet examined but three specimens. The specimen in...the Academy was known to carry off from one farm, rn the space of a month, not less than twenty -seveu individuals of various kinds of poultry, before... | |
 | Wisconsin. Geological Survey - 1883 - 786 páginas
...visitant. Dr. Hoy knew of one of these birds which carried off from one farm in the space of a month riot less than twenty-seven individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot. 155. SCOPS ASIO (LixN.), BP. RED OWL; MOTTLED OWL; SCREECH OWL. GROUP III. CLASS b. Common. Resident.... | |
 | 1893 - 320 páginas
...beetles." The following, from the pen of Dr. PB Hoy, shows how destructive a single Owl may be : " The specimen in the collection of the academy was...individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot." (Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vol. vi, 1853, p. 307.) Dr. C. Hart Merriam gives the following account... | |
 | Albert Kenrick Fisher - 1893 - 324 páginas
...destructive a single Owl may be : " The specimen in the collection of the academy was known to cany off from one farm, in the space of a month, not less...individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot." (Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sei., vol. VI, 1853, p. 307.) Dr. C. Hart Merriam gives the following account... | |
 | 1896 - 562 páginas
...Hoy, shows how destructive a single Owl may be: — "The specimen in the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy was known to carry off from one farm in the...individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot" (Proc. Philad. Acad. Nat. Soc. vol. vi. 1853, p. 807). Dr. Hart Merriam also, in his ' Birds of Connecticut,'... | |
 | John Hall Sage, Louis Bennett Bishop - 1913 - 382 páginas
...prey, with the possible exception of the Goshawk and Cooper's Hawk, and quotes Dr. PR Hoy as writing, " The specimen in the collection of the Academy was...individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot." Of the 127 stomachs reported by him, 31 contained poultry or game birds ; 8, other birds; 13, mice;... | |
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The specimen in the collection of the Academy was known to carry off from one farm, in the space of a month, not less than twenty-seven individuals of various kinds of poultry before it was shot. 