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Color adult above, including rump and upper tail 

 coverts, sooty-brown, mottled and transversely banded with 

 ashy-white; wings and tail, dusky-brown, transversely 

 banded with ashy-white; under parts, including under 

 wing and tail coverts, ashy-white, longitudinally streaked 

 with sooty-brown, the streakings being more numerous on 

 the breast, with transverse bands of the same color on the 

 abdomen and under tail coverts. The face is grayish, 

 barred with dusky, and the eyes are nearly surrounded by 

 a ring of the same dark color." 



Similar to the above, in form and general appearance, is 

 the Barred Owl (Strix nebulosd). About 18.00 long and 

 40.00 in extent, the upper parts are brown, barred with 

 white and tinged with reddish; the lower parts, which are 

 lighter, have the markings crosswise on the breast, and 

 lengthwise or barred below. This hooting species, inclining 

 to disappear with the breaking up of the large tracts of 

 forest, seems rare in Western New York. It is quite com- 

 mon in New England, and to the eastward generally, from 

 Newfoundland to Florida. The nests are in a hollow or 

 crotch of a tree, the white egg being about 2.00X1.70. 



It may be proper to mention Richardson's Owl (Nyctale 

 tengmalmi) in this connection. As an occasional migrant 

 into New England, like the former, having been taken once 

 even in Connecticut, being reported by Mr. M. Chamber- 

 lain as taken in New Brunswick in August, and its nest 

 having 'been found by Mr. Perham in the Magdalen Islands, 

 we may fairly suppose that it breeds in Nova Scotia. Mr. 

 J. Matthew Jones, of Halifax, some time since, reported 

 it as found in the province. This is one of our smaller and 

 most hyperborean Owls. "Above, olivaceous chocolate- 

 brown, spotted with white; beneath, white, spotted and 

 streaked, and streaked with a brown similar to the back, but 



