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Forestburg, October 1; Harrison, October 18. Iowa — Woodbury 

 County, October 5. Nebraska (winters rarely) — Gresham, Septem- 

 ber 15; Spalding, September 24; Chadron, October 1. Kansas (may 

 winter rarely in southern part) — Wichita, October 24; Cimarron, 

 November 30. Oklahoma (may winter rarely)— Arnett, October 7; 

 Fort Sill, October 10. 



The migration of these owls is perhaps more graphically portrayed 

 by three cases of individuals marked with numbered bands. One was 

 banded at Northville, S. Dak., on July 1, 1931, and recaptured at 

 Royal, Nebr., about October 1, 1931; the second, banded at West 

 Kildonan, Manitoba, on July 31, 1926, was shot at Spalding, Nebr., 

 on September 24, 1927; the third, also banded at Northville, S. Dak., 

 on June 27, 1931, was retaken near Gunter, Tex., on January 7, 1932. 



Casual records. — On several occasions the burrowing owl has been 

 taken outside of its normal range. Among these are the following: 

 About half a dozen specimens have been taken in Louisiana (Chenier 

 Tigre, March 6, 1918, and December 10, 1925; Grand Isle, one on 

 April 22 and two on April 27 ; Baton Rouge, March 11, 1933). Appar- 

 ently all these belonged to the western subspecies. A specimen col- 

 lected on Blakely Island, opposite Mobile, Ala., on February 3, 1912, 

 is the Florida race. A specimen was taken in Porter County, Ind., 

 on April 16, 1924; one was captured alive on Wolfe Island, Ontario, 

 in the fall of 1894; on October 22, 1918, one came on board a naval 

 vessel off Hampton Roads, Va.; one was reported from New York 

 City in August 1875; one was collected at Newburyport, Mass., 

 on May 15, 1875; and a specimen was found dead at Dover, N. H., 

 about February 20, 1922. 



Probably the most northern occurrence is a nonbreeding male 

 collected on July 8, 1921, ten miles north of Poplar Point, Manitoba. 



Egg dates.— Florida: 52 records, March 22 to May 21; 26 records, 

 April 4 to 23, indicating the height of the season. 



California: 41 records, April 1 to June 17; 21 records, April 14 to 

 May 2. 



Colorado and Kansas: 11 records, March 29 to July 1; 6 records, 

 May 14 to June 2. 



Dakotas: 7 records, May 1 to June 13. 



SPEOTYTO CUN1CULARIA FLORIDANA Ridgway 



florida burrowing owl 

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HABITS 



Ridgway (1914), although he originally described this owl under the 

 above name, treats it in his latest work as specifically distinct from the 

 western bird, and applies the name Speotyto floridana floridana to the 



