OrnitJtological Notes. 97 



Relating to the food of Raptorial Birds and supplementing a 

 paper read by me before this Society, April, 1885, I present the 

 following items. 



Long EARED Owl. 

 Asio wilsonianus. (Less.) 

 Male, from Warren Co., Ohio, Nov. 10. Contained insects. 

 Male, from Hamilton Co., Ohio, January 10. Contained 

 mice. 



Great Horned Owl. 

 Bubo virginianus (Gmel.) 

 Male, Cincinnati, Nov. 24. Contained Beetles (Geotrypes.) 

 Female, Canton, Ohio, January. Filled with mice. 



Red-Shouldered Hawk. 

 Buteo li neat us (Gmel.) 

 Hamilton Co., Ohio, Nov. 29. Contained one frog. 

 Cooper's Hawk. 

 Accipiter cooperi (Bon.) 

 Female, Glendale, Dec. 22. Contained one European 

 Sparrow. 



Screech Owl. 

 Mega scops asio (Linn.) 

 January 12, Cincinnati, Ohio. Contained the remains of four 

 mice. 



Death of the Zoo Ostrich. 



The fine large female Ostrich belonging to the Zoological Gar- 

 den was found dead one morning, although the keeper had left her 

 the evening before seemingly in perfect condition of health. An 

 external examination revealed the fact that the right tibia and 

 fibula had been fractured near their lower ends. On opening the 

 body an egg mass was found. It had in the centre a normal sized 

 ostrich egg, enveloped in a succession of leathery shells in layers 

 one outside of the other. There were about twenty of these layers 

 and the entire mass measured 18x13 inches. The largest normal 

 Ostrich egg measures about 5x6:^ inches. The bird fractured her 

 leg in a desperate effort to be delivered of this enormous egg. 



Avondale, June, 1887. 



