974 BRITISH COLUMIUA SUPPLEMENT. 



on the 2(>tli of September, iSiSg, liy Miss Cox and presented to the Provnicial Museum. 

 The larger species of this group, the Tyraitnidac, arc somewhat prone to wander but this is 

 perhaps llie most remarkalile instance upon record 



B. C. & H. No. II. 



AMKRIC.AX BAR.\ OWL. 



A. O. U. No. 365. Aluco pratincola (Bonap.). 



Description.— .-J(/»/r- General color of upperparts ochraccous yellow; this lightly over- 

 laid or moliled with gray, the typical mottled gray feathers having dusky centers and white 

 tips; indistinct dusky bars on wing-quills and tail-feathers, clearest centrally: entire nnder- 

 parts wdiite. usually more or less washed with fulvous or tawny, and sparingly Inu sharply 

 speckled with dusky ; facial disk wdiite or whitish or tinged variously with ochraccous-buff, 

 dark lirown. or even claret; the edges of the disk rusty and dark brown on the tips of the 

 feathers; bdl light; feet light, nearly naked. The folded wing e.xtends to or beyond the 

 end of the tail." Nestlings are covered with fluffy white down. Length 14.00-18.00; wing 

 12.25-1-4.00; tail .s. 25-7.50; tarsus 2.25-3.25; bill along culmeu 1.00-1,25. 



Recognition Marks. — Crow size; li.ght colors, e-^pecially below; strongly marked facial 

 di'-k ; |np-lKa\y appearance. 



Nesting. — \'cst: in hollow trees or in crevices about towers, pigeon-houses, earth-banks, 

 etc., Inud ^cautily with sticks and trash. Eggs: 5-1 1, white, ovate. .\v. size. i./Oxl.^o. 



General Range. — United States, rarely to the northern border, and Ontario, southward 

 llniinL;li Me.Nicn : normal northern linut of breeding range aboiU latitude 41°. 



Occurrence in British Columbia. — .\ breeding female just captured (.April, igog) near 

 Ladner's Landing gives this southern species an established place upon our records. The 

 bird is so exclusively nocturnal in its habits that our former oversight is not at all to be 

 woufKred at. 



Presumed Occurrence in Washington. — There are a nnudier of Oregon records for 

 this species and the record above noted makes a strong ca'c for the Barn Owd as a bird of 

 Washington. 



B. C. & H. No. 12. 



GREAT HOR.N'HI) OWL. 



A. O. V. No. 375. Bubo virginianus (Gniel. ). 



Description. — Similar to B. v. lagufhouus ( <;. .'. p. 478) but coloration averaging darker. 

 [Wc-tern examples jiroliably represent merely individual variation of B. v. hgol'lwiuis or 

 B. V. sulurafiis. ^ince B. z'irgiiiidniis is strictly non-migratory. W. I^. D.] 



General Range. — Eastern North .America north to Labrador, west to eastern border 

 of Great I'l.ains. or. northerly, to Rocky Mountains (?). 



Occurrence in British Columbia. — Two specimens taken at Chilliwack wdien laid along- 

 side of an Itastern ( ( )ntario ) bird were absolutely indistinguishable, being very rufous and 

 moderately light-colored. 



B. C. & H. No. 13. 



RED-BELLIED HAWK. 



A. O. V. No 3,^9 b. Buteo lineatus elegans (Cass.), 



Description. — Adult: .Above rich chocol.ite-brown, fuscous and grayish brown, varied 

 by rufous and ochraceous, especially on head and back, and by whitish on scapulars and 

 inner quills; lesser wing-coverts extensively rufous, forming a red "shoulder"; wing-quills 

 and greater coverts dusky-barred and white-spotted and -tipped, forming irregular bars; ends 

 of primaries and tail principally blackish, the latter crossed by four or five narrow, wdiite 

 bands, and tipped with white; upper tail-coverts barred and tipped wdth white, affording 

 occasional suggestion of white rump; four outer primaries deeply emarginate ; underparts 

 rich chestnut-rufous, of variable intensity, sometimes dark enough to obliterate all markings, 

 at others exhibiting streaks of darker on sides of neck, throat and breast, and barring on 

 tibise, but nnder-pattern of tail always distinct. Cere and feet chrome-yellow; bill blackish; 

 claws black. Immature: DifTerent; dark browai or fuscous above, only traces of rufous on 

 wnig-coverts, etc.; spotting of quills ochraceous; tail dusky, wdth seven or ei.ght grayish 

 bars which licconie more ochraceous and gradually obsolete basally ; underparts not so 

 richly colored as in adult, heavily streaked and striped with dark brown. .Adult male. length : 

 18.00-20.00; wing 1 1. 50-13. 50; tail 7.50-9.00. Adult female, length: 20.00-22.00: wing 12.OO- 

 1400; tail 8.50-10.00. 



