The Oologist. 



VOL. XIX. NO. 6. 



ALBION. N. Y., JUNE, 1902. 



Whole No. 189 



The Oologist. 



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The Barn Owl in Orange County. 



In my last article which has appeared 

 in the Oologist, I mentioned the fact 

 that my next notes would probably 

 concern some one or more species of 

 our Owls, and as a yourig friend of 

 mine has just handed me a nice set of 



seven fresh eggs of the Barn Owl, my 

 thoughts naturally turn to this bird. 1 

 do not remember my first introduction 

 to Strix— it was probably on some 

 moon-light night as he sailed slowly 

 over the alfalfa lot, and may have been 

 assisted by a double barreled shotgun, 

 but I do remember very distinctly, the 

 first eggs of this bird which I ever ob- 

 tained. The event occurred about 

 eight years ago, I think and I still have 

 two of the six eggs which made up the 

 full set. Their takiDg came about in 

 this way. To the south and east of 

 Fullerton, the Santa Ana river broadens 

 out into an extensive dry wash covered 

 with ssge, elder, scrub willow and 

 cactus. This wash has at sundry times 

 been an object of charity to certain 

 persons who had a little money to sink 

 in "California real estate" and who 

 thought— or were told by their agents— 

 that this sandy loam (?) was just the 

 soil for walnuts, olives, apricots, any- 

 thing in fact except citrus fruits. A 

 year or two of residence in the wash 

 usually convinced these adventurous 

 spirits that there was no foundation for 

 an immense fortune to be found there 

 and they decamped — often in the inter- 

 val between two days. They left their 

 little cabins behind them, and one, in 

 particular, left a young well of about 

 twenty feet depth just back of his 

 shanty. 



Happening to pass this place one day 

 in April I peered down into the old 

 hole and saw there two Barn owls. 

 My best previous "take" of my collect- 

 ing career had been a set of crow's 

 eggs, but here was happiness and oolog- 

 • ical richness beyond my boyish dreams, 

 I being then about fourteen years of 

 age. So great was my trust that there 

 were eggs under one or both of those 



