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Family Strigidce. 



*18. Strix cinerea, Bonaparte, Great Grey Owl, Stratford and 

 New Haven. 



*19. S. nyctea, Wilson, Snowy Owl, Stratford and New Ha- 

 ven, 



20. S. Assio, Audubon, Red Owl, common. 

 *21. S. Virginica, Wilson, Great Horned Owl, Stratford. 

 *22. S. otus, Wilson, Long-eared Owl, Stratford. 

 23. S. brachiotus, Wilson, Short-eared Owl, Stratford. 

 *24. S. nebulosa, Wilson, Barred Owl, Stratford and New Ha- 

 ven. 



*25. S. Acadica, Gmelin, Little Owl, Stratford and New Ha- 



ven. 



26. S. flammea? Wilson, Barn Owl, Stratford. 



*27. S. Scandiaca? Linn., Great horned White Owl, New Ca- 





naan. 



with him, and in the stomach of the latter I found four specimens of a new shell. I 

 think I have seen it asserted that this hawk never makes two attempts at the same 

 fish. But in this instance he caught the fish, and when rising out of the water it 

 escaped his grasp, he immediately pounced again upon and succeeded in retaking it. 



*18. A specimen of the great grey owl was killed in Stratford, and presented by 

 me to the Yale Natural History Society on the 6th of January last. It proved to 

 be the young of one or two years of this very rare bird. 



*19. Of the snowy owl I have had five specimens. The female, which I sent 

 to the cabinet of the Yale Natural History Society, weighed five pounds and tea 

 ounces, and measured four feet ten inches in alar. The male weighed fourteen 



ounces less. 



*21. The great horned owl is much less common than formerly. I have a spe- 

 cimen from New Milford, presented by Messrs. G. & E. Thompson of Bridgeport. 



*22. The long-eared owl and the red or screech owl breed here. 



*24. Of this rather rare bird I have obtained two specimens in Stratford this 



season. 



*25. Of the little Acadian owl, I have obtained one specimen, which was found 

 lying upon his back in a barn-yard in a cold morning in March, 1841, though still 

 living. It is very rare here ; I have seen but two individuals. His stomach con- 

 tained only some half-digested angle worms, (Lumbricus terrestris.) 



*27. About twenty years since, I had presented to me in New Canaan a most 

 beautiful owl, shot in that place, the color of which was pure white with thick 

 spots of dark brown, each of which was round and about the size of duck shot. 

 It is believed the dimensions of the bird were somewhat less than the snowy owl. 

 Soon after it was presented and left, and before I had measured and described it, 

 the donor returned and took it " to send to New York," after which I heard noth- 

 ing more of it. I have never been able to find any satisfactory description of it in 

 the books ; but the Strix Scandiaca answers the nearest to my own and my family's 

 recollection of it. It is certain it was not the S. nyctea, which it most resembled. 



