1908 J -^^N'^) Summer Birds of Southwestern Saskatchewan. 25" 



Mr. R. D. Hoyt of Seven Oaks, Hillsboro County, Florida, writes 

 me under date of Oct. 19, 1907: "No, I have never taken the Barn 

 Owl here, and September seems a queer time for them to nest in 

 South CaroKna. This owl is very plentiful in the Cape Sable 

 region, Florida. Two years ago I saw as many as eight or ten at 

 a time flying over the marshes just at dusk, and it would be inter- 

 esting to know when they breed in that country, as there is no 

 timber to speak of, and in the daytime the owls roost in the grass, 

 the same as Short-eared [Asio accipitrhius]. " 



I am indebted to my friend Mr. Herbert Ravenel Sass for tran- 

 scribing Audubon's account in his ' Ornithological Biography.' 



SUMMER BIRDS OF SOUTHWESTERN 

 SASKATCHEWAN.! 



BY A. C. BENT. 



77. Asio wilsonianus. American Long-eared Owl. — Only one pair- 

 was found. On June 2, 1905, I climbed to an old Rouglileg's nest, 

 about 14 feet up in a solitary poplar tree, on Bear Creek, and as I looked 

 over the edge of the nest I was surprised to see a Long-eared Owl staring 

 me in the face. I pushed her to one side and saw that she was sitting on 

 5 eggs which were on the point of hatcliing. 



78. Asio accipitrinus. Short-eared Owl. — Uncommon. About 3 

 or 4 pairs were located but only one nest was found. This was on the 

 duck island in Crane Lake, and on June 13, 1905, it contained one egg and 

 9 young in various stages of growth. The nest was surrounded with a 

 great lot of blackbird feathers. 



79. Bubo virginianus arcticus. Arctic Horned Owl. — One pair 

 of Horned Owls was located in 1905, and at least two pairs in 1906, in the 

 heavier timber on Maple and Skull Creeks One pair had occupied one 

 of the old heron's nests in the Great Blue Heron rookery on Skull Creek 

 and at the time we found it, June 5, 1905, the young had just left the nest; 

 the female and one of the young were secured. The owls seemed to live 

 in harmony with the herons, for there was an occupied heron's nest in the 



1 Concluded from Vol. XXIV, p. 4.30. 



