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barn owl, including parts of the femur, tibio-tarsus, metatarsus, and 

 ulna. The species is quite common in modern Florida. 



Family STRIGIDAE 

 OTUS ASIO (Linnaeus) 



Screech owl 

 Strix asio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 92. 



Parts of two humeri of the screech owl were collected by W. W. 

 Holmes in Saber-tooth Cave near Lecanto. This bird is common and 

 widely distributed in Florida. 



STRIX VARIA Barton 



Barred owl 

 Strix varius Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, p. 11. 



The barred owl, a common species in Florida at the present time, 

 seems to have had equally wide distribution during the Pleistocene. 

 In the Seminole area W. W. Holmes obtained a number of fragments 

 including parts of the metatarsus, humerus, ulna, and metacarpus. 

 In the excavation of Saber-tooth Cave at Lecanto Mr. Holmes further 

 obtained a nearly complete femur. J. W. Gidley secured part of a 

 metatarsus in the golf links area at Melbourne. The species has not 

 been previously recorded as a fossil. 



Order PASSERIFORMES 



Family CORVIDAE 

 CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS Brehm 



Crow 

 Corinis brachyrhynchos Brehm, Beitr. Vogelk., vol. 2, 1822, p. 56. 



Numerous remains of the common crow were secured by W. W. 

 Holmes in the Seminole area, indicating that this species was as 

 common during the Pleistocene as it is in Florida at the present time. 

 Crows have been recorded previously from Ice Age deposits in Cali- 

 fornia but not before from the Pleistocene of eastern North America. 



CORVUS OSSIFRAGUS Wilson 



Fish crow 

 Corvits ossifragus Wilson, Anier. Orn., vol. 5, 1812, p. 27, pi. ^j, fig. 2. 



A humerus, lacking the head, was obtained by W. W. Holmes in 

 the Seminole area, this being the first report of this species for the 



