13 



Great Horned Owl. "hoot-owl." Big Owl." "Chicken 



Owl." Bubo Virginianus. Geml. 



SEX. 



DVTE. LOCALITY. Poultry. Rabbit. Sm. b'rcls. Field-mice. Remarks. 



female ad 



Male ad 

 Female yg 

 Male ad 

 Fern ale yg- 

 atl 



Feb. 15, 1886. 

 Ai>ril — " 

 March — " 

 Sei>t. — 1878 

 Oct. -20. 1882. 

 Ausnist 7, '79, 

 Feb. 9, 1879, 



Lepns sylvatlue 

 Chick'n feath'rs 



Rem. of chicken 



bl. b'dQ ptirpur- 

 [euB . 



White Owl. "Snow Owl."' "Arctic Owl." 



Nyctea nyctea. Linn. 



SEX. 



DATE. 



LOCALITY. 



Rabbit. Jleat. 



REMARKS, 



Male ad I Winter 1879, I Chester county, Pa 



Female ad I Winter 1H79, I 



X 



Lepus pylvaticus. 

 .\pparently beef. 



American Barn Owl. "Monkey faced Owl.'" 



Strix pratincola. Boap. 



SEX. 



DATE. 



LOCALITY. 



Field-mice. 



Female ad 

 Female ad 

 Male ad 



[ May 21, 1886 



November 14, 1880, . 

 1 September— 1882,. 



I Chester county, Pa. 



I Philadelphia county. Pa. 



Barred Hw). "Hoot-Owl."' "Big Gray Owl 



Syrnium nebulosum. tor&t. 



All the owXs in this table were talien in Chester Couuty, Pa. 



X 

 X 

 X 



ton all the several species of owls recorded in the year 1886 bounty has been paid. 



The Connmittee also made inquiries of the Commissioners of the 

 different counties as to the numbers of birds and mammals that have 

 been killed and for which bounties had been paid, and received an- 

 swers up to July I, last, from thirty-four counties. The number of 

 hawks killed and reported up to that date was 9237, at an expense 

 o^ ^=7335. 10 and of owls 2499 at an expense of ^1303.90. 



In many cases, however, the fees of the magistrates were not in- 

 cluded, but merely the bounties paid on the birds. The bounties 

 paid for minks, weasels, foxes and wild cats, raised the sums reported 

 to$i5i65 95 t 



As the time included in the returns does not come down to date, 

 and as only 34 out of 67 counties made reports, it is believed by the 

 Committee that the counties pay annua ly not less than $60,000 under 

 the law of 1885, of which the largest part is paid for the dee.truction 

 of hawks and owls. 'I'hat they are the best inends of the firmer, and 

 that their destruction is to him a great disadvantage, the Committee 

 thinks that it has already shown, by the letters of eminent ornitholo- 

 gists in its report of March 4th, last. 



