2/2 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
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CXXXV. NYCTALA BrREHM. 1828. 
371. Richardson’s Owl. 
Nyctala tengmalmi richardsont (BoNAP.) RipGw. 1872. 
A possible resident of Newfoundland, but I have not seen it. 
(Reeks.) Becoming very rare; seen only in winter in Nova 
Scotia. (Dowmns.) Very rare in Nova Scotia. Have seen only 
four specimens. (G7/pfin.) Occasionally met with at St. John’s, 
New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) One taken at Scotch Lake, 
York Co., N.B., in winter. (W. A. Moore.) Taken at Beauport ; 
winter resident in Quebec. (JDionne.) A scarce winter visitant 
at Montreal. (Wiuntle.) This is a winter visitor at Ottawa, Ont., 
and has been taken by Mr. G. R. White and seen by Mr. Lees. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) My specimens of this species were 
shot at Toronto, Ont., and I have very few records of its occurence 
in other parts of the province. (Wc/lwratth.) Occurs about 
Toronto but is very rare. Mr. Hay has met with one or two in 
the Parry Sound district. (/. H. Fleming.) Probably resident in 
the wooded sections of Manitoba. A common winter visitor ; in 
January, 1885, Mr. Hine of Winnipeg showed me several dozen 
skins taken that fall near Winnipeg. (Zhompson-Seton.) 1 cannot 
state the range of this species but believe that it inhabits all the 
wooded country from Great Slave Lake to the United States. 
On the banks of the Saskatchewan it is so common that its voice 
is heard almost every night by the traveller wherever he selects 
his bivouac. (A¢chardson.) North to Fort Simpson on the Mac- 
zenzie ; rather rare. (oss.) This handsome little bird is com- 
mon throughout all northern Alaska, wherever trees or bushes 
occur to afford it shelter. (Velson.) This owl does not occur at 
St. Michael, on the coast. It inhabits the wooded districts. 
(Zurner.) A rare winter visitant at Chilliwack, B.C. ; a consider- 
able irruption of this owl occurred throughout the southern 
interior during the winter of 1898-99 ; rare in the Okanagan dis- 
trict in winter; resident throughout the winter in the Cariboo 
district, B.C. (Brooks.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This small owl is occasionally met with in 
eastern Ontario in the late fall. I have seen a specimen shot 
near Kingston. It breeds not uncommonly on the Magdalen 
Islands, usually selecting a hole that had been made by the 
“ flicker”? in a dead spruce stub. I saw two sets of eggs, of four 
