LOXG-EARED OWL. Ill 



and have young well grown in May, and nests with eggs almost 

 hatched have been found in July. 



Mr. Mcllwraith gives this Owl as " not common " around 

 Hamilton. Reeks says it is a summer migrant to Newfoundland. 

 Dr. Gilpin of Halifax, N.S. writes me that it is a rare winter 

 visitant in that Province, but does not mention it as occurring in 

 summer ; and Couper states it is abundant in the dense pine forests 

 north of the city of Quebec. I have met with it several times 

 around Montreal, and have taken specimens on our mountain and 

 on the Nuns' Island opposite the city, where I know it breeds. 

 On this island the Oua-birds or Night-Herons also nest regularly,'"' 

 and it would be interesting to ascertain whether the Long-eared 

 Owl ever occupies their nests. I do not think that this Owl is 

 rare in any part of North America, but there are seasons when it 

 is more abundant than others. 



The sexes, excepting a trifling distinction in size, are not 

 appreciably different. 



Kr. Chak. Ear-tufts long and conspicuous ; eyes ratlier fmall ; wings long ; tarsi .and toes 

 densely feathered ; upper parts mottled with brownish black, fulvous and'ashy white ; the former 

 predominating ; breast pale fulvous with longitudinal stripes of brownish-black ; abdomen white ; 

 every feather with a wide longitudinal stripe, and with transverse stripes of brownish-black ; 

 legs and toes pale fulvous, usually unspotted, but frequently with regular narrow transverse stripes 

 of dark brown ; eye nearly encircled with black ; other feathers of the face ashy white, with 

 minute lines of black ; ear-tufts brownish-black, edged with fulvous and ashy white ; quills pale 

 fulvous at their bases, with irregular transverse bands of brown ; inferior coverts of the wing pale 

 fulvous, frequently nearly wliite, the larger widely tipped with black ; tail brown, with several 

 irregular transverse lands of ashy fulvous, which are motlled, as on the quills. Bill and claws dark ; 

 irides orange-yeUo\\*. 



Total length — Fem.ale, aliout 15 inches ; wing, 11 to 11J-2 ; tail, 6 inches. 

 " — Male, rather smaller. 



* See " Notes on the Night-heron " by the Author, Canadian Nat. and Geol. New Series, II. p.*53. 



