Notes on the Birds. 343 
The records for Carroll County are as follows: On January 29, 1884, one 
was received from John W. Hamilton of Bringhurst near which place it 
had been shot January 25. Another was seen at the same time and place. 
On February 5, 1886, one was received from S. W. Barnard of Deer 
Creek. On January 14, 1888, I saw one in a spruce tree in my father’s yard 
near Burlington. 
On December 30, 1890, Mr. E. FE. Slick of Kewanna, Fulton County, sent us 
a specimen which he collected near that place. 
SS. ASTO FLAMMEUS (Pontoppidan). SHORT-EARED OWL. (367) 
Resident in all the counties but not often seen. 
We obtained two specimens in Monroe County in the fall of 1885, and one 
October 18, 1886. February 1, 1890, Mr. Fletcher M. Noe of Indianapolis, 
sent us a female taken January 31. 2% miles north of that city. December 
1, two females obtained near Terre Haute by Dr. T. C. Stunkard, and two 
others obtained by Mrs. Geo. Brosius at Paris, Illinois. one of which was 
brought to us. In the fall of 1SSS (probably in October). I saw one at the 
Five-mile Pond north of Terre Haute. February 13, 1891, we received a 
pair (male and female), in the flesh from Frankport, Clinton County, where 
they were collected by Mr. Al. Keys. On December 27, 1902, one was seen 
near a tamarack swamp two miles southwest of Lake Maxinkuckee. 
89. STRIX VARTA VARIA Barton. BARRED OWL. (368) 
One of our most common owls, and a permanent resident in all the coun- 
ties considered. Although I noted it frequently in Monroe, I collected no 
specimens. In Carroll, I noted it very often. Several were obtained in 
the winters of 1877 to 1879: one near Camden, February 18. 1878, and a 
female January 27, 1879. Whenever I made a trip to any of the heavily 
timbered regions about Camden or Burlington, especially in the Deer Creek 
bottoms, I was quite sure to see one or more of these interesting owls. In 
the heavy woods southwest of my father’s farm near Burlington, they were 
very common and in the spring of the year, their crazy notes could be heard, 
quite terrifying to the small boy who at times was sent into the edge of 
those woods to bring the cows home in the evening. <A pair had their nest 
for several years in the hollow of a large elm not far from the house, and 
I have often seen the whole family, old and young, in the old elm or other 
trees near by. February 14, 1885, a female brought us by Mr. John Cline 
from near Camden. On the previous evening I saw one in the woods 2% 
miles south of Camden. February 21, a female was sent us by 8. W. Bar- 
nard of Flora. March 9, I found a male dead in the woods southwest of my 
father’s farm. On December 7, 1889, I secured a female at the Goose Pond, 
9 miles south of Terre Haute. On January 4, 1890, another female was 
brought us by Mr. J. E. McGilvrey from near Clinton, Parke County. This 
owl was being pursued by crows when Mr. MecGilvrey shot it. An examin- 
ation of the ovaries showed eggs not larger than peas. 
The Barred Owl never kills chickens. Its food consists almost entirely 
of noxious rodents, insects. and the like. It is therefore a yery useful bird 
and should be rigidly protected. 
