PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 433 

 Family STRIGID^ : The Owls.* 



•130. Strix flammea, /3. pratiucola, Bonap.— Jme*(Crt« J>arn Owl. 



The Barn Owl is a common resident of the valleys, especially in the 

 willow thickets near Stockton. I have not seen it in the mountains. 



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Wing only. 

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131. Asio accipitrinus, (Pall. ). — Short-cared Owl. 



This Owl is common at Stockton and Marysvillein winter. It left the 

 former place about the first of April of the present year, and reappeared 

 on or before September 30 following. 



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Summit Meadow , 

 Stockton 



Sept. 16, 1877 

 Mar. 30, 1878 



132. Asio •wilsonianus, (Less.). — Lon^-eared Owl. 



I have seen this Owl at Marysville in former years, but do not think I 

 have seen it anywhere within the last two years, t 



* 133. Bubo virginianus, 6. subarcticus, Hoy. — Western Great Horned Owl. 



This Owl is very common at Jjig Trees in summer and is occasionally 

 seen in the valleys in muter. I do not remember seeing it in the val- 

 ley during summer, nor did I see or hear it at Soda Springs or Summit 

 Meailows in the fall of 1877, though I was informed that it is sometimes 

 found there. There is one mounted at the Big Trees, which I shot there 

 several years ago. It is often seen at Marysville, especially in winter. 



*134. Scops asio, (L.). — Little Mottled Owl; Screech Owl. 



This Owl is (iuit(^. abundant at Stockton. I have seen it among the 

 foot-hills, but not in the pine forests. [These specimens, like all others 

 fixmi Cahfomia and the Western Province in general, so far as known, 

 are in the gray plumage. — R. E.] 



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*I have never shot a bird of the geuus Si/rniiim in California, though on October 

 25, 1878, I saw in an oak grove two large ash-colored Owls, which may have belonged 

 to a species of this genn.s. They wore nearly as largo as the Gr(>,at Homed Owl, and 

 appeared to see well in the bright sunlight. No car-ttifts were noticed. At Big Trees 

 I tried several nights to shoot a large Owl, which may have been a Syrnium, but did not 

 succeed. One evening it flow, at a sharp angle, to the toj) of a dead pine-tree, out of 

 the reach of shot, where it sat silently for about half an hour [Note. — In the ab- 

 sence of any other known species to which the above description will apply, and 

 .allowing for the circumstances under which the birds were seen, it is qiute possible 

 that they were the grayish variety of Bubo virfiiniaiiiix. — K. R. ] 



t While attached to the U. S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, I found 

 this Owl very abundant in the willow thickets at Sacramento City, in June, 18()7. — 

 R. R. 



t Found C.cad. 



Proc. Nat. .Mus. 7s 'js .TIa&'elt 22, 1 878. 



