114 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



RAPTORES. STRIGES. 



STRIGIDAE. 



R. I. — Uncommon and irregular winter visitor. Nov. 3-Feb. 15. 

 Conn. — Uncommon and irregular winter visitor. Oct. 17. 



217. SuRXiA ULULA CAPAROCH (Mtiller) Stejneger. 

 American hawk owl; Day owl. 



Strix caparoch ]Mull., Linne' Vollstand. natursyst., suppl., 1776, 

 p. 69. "EuROPA." 



Sur7iia funerea Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1840, vol. 1, 

 p. 112, pi. 27. Egg, Bendire, 1892, vol. 1, pi. 12, fig. 18. 



Open country or woods; nests in trees or rarely in cliffs. 



Me. — Rare fall and winter \dsitor. Oct. 24-Mar. 10 (April 16, 

 1906, Van Buren). 



N. H. — Rare fall and winter \isitor. Oct. 25-(April 20, Con- 

 necticut Lakes). 



Vt.- — Rare fall and winter visitor; (? summer in north). Xov. 

 2-winter. 



]Mass. — Rare fall and winter visitor. Nov. 16-Mar. 25. 



R. I. — Rare winter visitor: \Yest Greenwich, Nov. 16, 1906; 

 (also one doubtful record). 



CoxN. — Rare winter visitor: New Haven, Nov. 1869. 



218. Speotyto cunicularia htpogaea (Bonaparte) Coues. 



Burrowing owl. 



A. K. Fisher, Hawks and owls of U. S., 1893, p. 195, pi. 25. 

 Egg, Bendire, 1892, vol. 1, pi. 12, fig. 14. 



Strix hypogaea Bonap., Amer. ornith., 1825, vol. 1, p. 72, pi. 7, 

 fig. 2. "Western Americax territory." 



Open prairie country; nests in old burrows of prairie-dogs and 

 spermophiles. 



Mass. — Accidental visitor: Newbur^-port, ^lay 5, 1875. 



