40 BIRDS OF NELSOIf COUNTY. 



In the museum of the Louisville Polytechnic Society 

 there is a mounted specimen of this owl, which was shot 

 in Bullitt county, fifteen or twenty miles north of here. 



Family STRIGID.a;: Owls. 

 Genus Asio. 



130. Asio ace jpitrinus (Pall.). Short-eared Owl. 



Rare : one specimen only, flushed from a clump of briars, 

 November 17, 1881, and shot by Mr. W. H. Rowan, of 

 Bardstown. 



Genus Scope. 



131. * Scops asio (Linn.). Little Screech Owl. 



A common permanent resident. I have seen fully fledged 

 young birds on the wing May 31st. For two or three 

 years a pair bred in a locust tree on the edge of a carriage 

 way, and within thirty feet of the door of a large house. 



Genus Bubo. 



132. *Bubo virginaaus (Gmel.). Great Horned Owl. 



A rather common Summer resident. A gentleman near 

 here caught six or eight within a week with steel traps 

 placed on a conspicuous perch in his barn-yard where the 

 big marauders were accustomed to get their suppers. 



Genus Nyctea. 



133. Nyctea nivea (LmN.). Snowy Owl. 



A circum-polar bird that occasionally visits these climes 

 during severe winters. I know but two records of its 

 capture: Audubon mentions one being taken "neai 

 Bairdstown, Kentucky," and several years ago Mr. E. E. 

 McKay, of this place, shot one sitting on a gate-post dur 

 ins: a snow-storm. 



