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empty; ovaries small. Both appeared to be adults, and 

 were beginning or concluding moult. 



49. Scotiaptex cinerea (Gmel.) GREAT GRAY OWL. 

 Newberry. We obtained proofs of its existence in the 



Sacramento Valley, in the Cascade Mountains, in the 

 Des Chutes Basin, and on the Columbia. 



Mr. Wm. Proud has a specimen, which he informed 

 me was brought to him in flesh soon after it had been 

 shot, in the hills near Chico. L. B. 



Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson. Occasionally 

 seen in heavily wooded districts. 



Cooper, 1882. Common in the dense spruce forests 

 near the Columbia River and northward. 



Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. A single specimen of 

 this owl was taken at Sitka by Bischoff; and on the 20th 

 of April Mr. Dall obtained a female that had been shot 

 near Mulato. He subsequently obtained several speci- 

 mens in that region. 



50. Nyctala acadica (Gmel.) SAW-WHET OWL. 

 British Columbia. John Fannin. Common resident. 

 Vancouver. Cooper, 1860. Februarys, 1854, I found 



one dead. 



Suckley, 1860. A fine specimen found at the Dalles 

 of the Columbia in December, 1853. 



Willamette Valley. 0. B. Johnson. I have a single 

 example. 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Only taken during very 

 cold weather in the winter. I think it a resident, and 

 that it breeds here. 



Ridgway. But a single specimen was met with at 

 Thousand Spring Valley, Nevada, September 24. 



Dr. Gambel met with it in California (northward?). 



Fort Tejon. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway. Female 

 specimen collected by J. Xantus. 



