294 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Nova Scotia both winter and summer. (Downs; Gilpin; Tufts.) 
An abundant resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) A 
permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B.; tolerably 
common. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Beauport; a resident in 
Quebec. (Dionne.) A permanent resident at Montreal, but not 
common. I shot a female and male specimens October 25th, 1889, 
and February 8th, 1890, on the spur of Mount Royal. (Wzvnile.) 
A moderately common resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) Along the southern boundary of Ontario the 
barred owl is by no means rare, but farther north I have not heard 
of it being observed. (McIlwraith.) A common resident in. Parry 
Sound and Muskoka districts; also at Cache lake, Algonquin park. 
Regular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. (J. H. Fleming.) The 
most northern point I have met this bird is Whitney on the Parry 
Sound railway, northern Ontario. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A rare 
resident in the London district. (W. E. Saunders.) Rare and’ 
probably migratory. A summer resident though rare; more com- 
mon east of Winnipeg, Man. (E. T. Seton.) I have two records of 
this species for Manitoba, one at Ochre river, the other within the 
Portage la Prairie town limits. (Atkinson.) This species was 
described from a specimen sent from Hudson bay by Mr. Graham. 
I have never observed the bird in my travels in America. (Richard- 
SON.) 
BREEDING NotTes.—A few of these birds are met with every 
year along the St. Lawrence but it isnot common. The nest has 
been found in a hole in a tree near Kingston, Ont., and a few years 
ago I saw five young birds that were shot about a mile outside of 
the town of Brockville, Ont., in July. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Rare; 
no authentic record of its breeding near London, Ont., though 
doubtless it does so. (W. E. Saunders.) 
369a. Spotted Owl. 
Syrnium occidentale caurinum C. H. MERRIAM. 1898. 
I saw a specimen of this owl which was taken a few miles down 
the Fraser from Chilliwack, B.C.; apparently confined to the lower 
Fraser valley, where it is a rare and local resident. (Brooks.) 
