86 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



one shot (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Jan. 15, 191 1, East Hartford, 

 one taken (in coll. of J. H. S.). C. L. R. has recorded several 

 specimens from New London County. 



Family STRIGID^. Homed Owls, etc. 



Asio wilsonianus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. 



A common winter and rare summer resident. 



Earliest record. New Haven, Oct. 25, 1904; Portland, Oct. 

 8, 1892. 



Latest record. New Haven, March 21, 1904; Portland, 

 March 25, 1875. 



Nesting records. April (prior to 1877), Berlin, nest with four 

 eggs (Brandegee) ;^ April 25, 1880, Ellington, five eggs taken 

 (J. M. Wade) ;' spring, 1881, Bristol, a set of eggs taken (E. 

 N. Brandegee) ; May 9, 1886, Woodbridge, nest with four young 

 (Augur) ; May, 1890, Northford, set of four eggs (Trowbridge, 

 in Trinity College Museum). 



Other summer records. July i, 1885, Litchfield (L. B. W.) ; 

 April 24, 1906, New Haven (L. B. W.) ; May i, 1906, North 

 Haven (L. B. B.). 



Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan). Short-eared Owd. 



A common fall and tolerably common spring migrant; most 

 frequently noted in October and March; winters rarely. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, March 2, 

 1894, Feb. 17, 1905 (Sherman) ; Portland, Feb. 9, 191 1. Latest 

 record. New Haven, March 31, 1896; Portland, April 29, 1883. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 7, 1906; 

 Portland, Oct. 8, 1890. Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 29, 

 1884; Portland, Dec. 12, 1903. 



A favorite haunt of these birds is the salt-water marshes, 

 where they sometimes congregate in flocks. Between sixteen and 

 twenty of these Owls were found by L. B. B. in the marshes at 

 Guilford, Oct. 17, 1890, more than half of them being within a 

 space twenty yards square. 



Breeding records. " Nests on the ground. Not uncommon " 

 (Merriam).^ Dr. William Wood of East Windsor Hill recorded^ 



1 ]\Ierriam, Birds of Conn., pp. 69, 70. 

 ' O. and O., vii, pp. 161-2. 

 ' Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 70. 

 * O. and O., ix, i, pp. lo-ii. 



