408 THE RICHARDSON OWL, 
but the few specimens which straggle down this way in winter are never left 
long to their own devices. The most we know of them is that when folded 
away in the cabinet drawer they look like great gray babies, over-rash to 
have left the protection of the northern nursery. 
Dr. Cooper killed a specimen of this Owl, a female, on the roth of June, 
1854, near Shoalwater Bay, at a spot described as “a brackish meadow, par- 
tially covered with small spruce trees,” and he surmised from this circum- 
stance that the birds nested in the vicinity. Mr. Lawrence reports* the 
taking of a specimen near Ocosta, in May; and we have a clear account, from 
a layman, of the occurrence of two individuals of this species, in June, near 
Lake Kachees, in Nittitas County. It looks as tho it were not impossible, 
therefore, that the bird should breed within our limits. Suffice it to say that 
the man who takes its eggs in Washington will gain odlogical immortality. 
No. 186. 
RICHARDSON’S OWL. 
A. O. U. No. 371. Glaux funerea richardsoni ( Bonap.). 
Synonym.—Arctic AMERICAN SAW-WueEetT Ow, 
Description.—-/du/t; Upperparts nearly uniform dark brown spotted with 
white—spots on top of head small and numerous, larger on hindneck where more 
or less confluent in collar, larger and more scarce on back and wing-coverts, oc- 
curring in pairs on wing-quills and tail-feathers; underparts white heavily 
streaked with color of back, markings tending to confluence on chest; flanks and 
tarsi buffy spotted with brown; facial disk chiefly white, but lores and eyelids 
blackish immediately surrounded with dark brown flecked with white. Bill yellow 
above, shading on sides. /mmature: Upperparts brown without white spotting, 
save on tail and wings; facial disk uniformly dark, save for white of upper edge; 
underparts unmarked, plain brownish changing to buffy posteriorly. Measure- 
ments of the Glacier specimen: length 10.00 (254); wing 6.44 (163.6); tail 3.70 
(94); tarsus .92 (23.4); culmen .60 (15.2)—smaller than the average. 
Recognition Marks.—Robin size; without ear-tufts; heavily spotted above; 
finely white-spotted on crown, and tarsus spotted with brown as compared with 
G. acadicus, larger. 
Nesting.—Much as in succeeding. Not known to breed in Washington. 
General Range.—Arctic America, south in winter into the northern United 
States, westerly south to Colorado and Oregon. Breeds from the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence and Manitoba northward. 
a. Auk, Vol. IX., Jan. 1892, p. 44. 
