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in Northern Ohio. Mr. Chubb states that the species is not un- 

 common in the colder months of the year. The late Dr. Wheaton,'in 

 his " Report on the Birds of Ohio," records the capture of three speci- 

 mens in Franklin County. The first specimen of this Owl which 

 came into my hands was shot by Mr. F. N. Wilcox, in November, 1883. 

 On May 28, 1889, my friend, J. E. Gould, shot two young birds of 

 this species in a woods near Worth ington, Ohio, — about five miles 

 north of Columbus. These had just left the nest. About a mile and 

 a half distant, in an entirely difierent strip of woods, another speci- 

 men was observed the same day. On June 2, returning to the place 

 where he had taken the two young, three more were observed, sitting 

 in the branches of the same sapling from which the two were shot 

 on May 28. One of these was secured with a stick, the other two 

 were allowed to remain. These were doubtless a brood of five, and 

 the one observed in another woods making six in all. There is little 

 doubt that the three young observed on June 2 were not strong 

 enough to leave the nest when Mr. Gould visited the place on May 28. 

 A dead mouse was observed hanging in a crotch of the sapling where 

 the Owls were perched, which was doubtless placed there by one of 

 the parent birds. Two of these specimens, kindly presented to me by 

 Mr. Gould, are in my collection ; the third is in his possession. That 

 the Acadian Owl breeds in Central Ohio there is now no longer any 

 doubt, and the securing of its eggs is only a question of time. 



379<?. Giaucidium gnoma callfornlcum (Sol.) [AQ^,parf.] 



California Pygmy Owl. 



Description under Pygmy Owl, Giaucidium gnoma Wagl. page 202. 

 380 Giaucidium phalaenoides (Daud.) [410] 



Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. 



Hab. Tropical America (except West Indies) north to Southern border of United States (Texas to 

 Arizona.) 



Mr. Geo. B. Sennett gives the first description of the ^^% of this 

 species, which is as follows: "On May 2, 1888, my collector took an 

 adult female and one egg of this Owl at Canon del Caballeros, near 

 Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The locality is high and at the base of 

 the more precipitous mountains. The nest was in a hollow tree and 

 contained but a single fresh ^%Z' "^^^ ^Z% is white, shaped like that 

 of a Megascops^ measuring 1.05 x .90 inches, and is in my collection 

 with the parent bird. It will be observed that in size it is very close 

 to the ^%% of M. whitneyiy * 



*Auk, VI, 70. 



