Show S NATURE t i 1 I 1 L e t ARCTIC OWL BOUNDLESS ARCTIC J HIS HOME HOfE B By ARTHUR N r CK President American Nature Association No o bird has hai better better right to be called a bird ot of file Uio arctic than the snowy owl 01 Ills His range ranae Is cir clr- circumpolar clr and nd In includes only those lands north ot of the limit ot of tree growth groth n Here re on the bound boundless leu rolling plains dotted with blue lakes lake and soon Goon to be clothed with brIght bright- hued bricht-hued hued flowers ho he and his mate make their home on some ome hillock raised from the damp ground In Ina Ina Ina a mound composed of o grass and weed stems the six or eight round rouM white eggs lire are laid The weather veather Is still cold colli and the eggs mus THUS not be bo left uncovered so the mother bird begins to set when she ahe lays the first egg and the young are hatched at Inter inter- intervals vila v vals ls Arctic hares ptarmigan and these lemmings lemmings these are the tho food of the tir young owls and in due time lime it If all nil goes well ell they are able ablo to fly and each learns to catch Its own food GO CO ON OS LONG JOURNEY It Is 15 now August The Tho flowers have ha gone to seed need and alreadY many of the summer birds are starting on their long journey to their winter homes But Dut the snowy owl o 0 l I loves too well his home and stays as long as S ho he can Snow Snowstorms Snowstorms Snowstorms storms come small ones at first just t whitening the barren hills hillsand and ond soon noon melting Th Then n comes one that does docs not met melt The Tho ptarmigan no longer can n find food and they go south south- southward southward southward ward where the the willows grow gro thickly thickly and furnish a bountiful supply of buds FOOD rOOD IS SCARCE sc I IThe The lemmings are re under the snow and the great white whit hares are scarce So southward the owls go too into the gr great at stretches of spruce and poplar woods wood Here is 13 a smaller hare hire white i like the theother theother th other Ho He Is it the th pr prey of ot those these other large owls the l great reat gray rray and the great greot horned But the th hares are aro 01 In myriads and there are enough for tor all So our eur arctic owl 1 picks out som some wooded wooded thinly 1 section close clos to tG toMine sOme wide Ide stretch of river and gravel bar now alike coveted covered with snow and thus reminding r him ot of othis ohis his beloved belond arctic waste and here ho Is la happy happ- passing the time un- un until un until til th the tho sun of spring has haa ha once more mere bared d his ancestral nesting ground round i Send Sent B I stamped cd a addressed lC l en- en m cole and l questions of ot fact t ct hav- hav havIng having hav having ing to do wills nith nature wilt will be bs an- an l hv by the consulting start staff of nature ture I Of Washington through I arrangements arrangement 7 to nude made to b I paper |