282 OHIO EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Just at dusk on August 25, 1890, in a tract of bottom woodland, the writer 

 wounded a Screech Owl with a charge of dust shot. It fell, but caught with its feet 

 a limb and there clung until dislodged by a stick, when with wings spread it sailed 

 down and took refuge in a partially decayed stump. Although seen to enter the 

 stump, a close search of fully fifteen minutes was necessary to discover its hiding 

 place. So closely had it pressed itself into a cavity in the wood that remaining 

 motionless, and aided by its peculiar coloration, it was overlooked at least half a dozen 

 times, though in plain sight all the while. 



The stomach of a specimen examined contained remains of the white-footed 

 mouse {Peromyscus leucopus}, and of an unidentifiable Sparrow. 



Of twenty-eight specimens from the County, fourteen are gray, thirteen are in 

 the red phase, and one is in the rarer intermediate plumage. This last specimen has 

 the general color of the upper parts mummy brown, the principal color markings 

 below being reddish brown. 



GENUS BUBO DUMERIL. 



GREAT HORNED OWL, MUCH REDUCED. 



71. Bubo virginianus (GMEL.). 

 Great Horned Owl. 



A tolerably common resident; apparently most numerous during the fall and 

 winter, being found in nearly all wooded districts of the County. It is here generally 

 regarded as injurious, and is consequently killed whenever occasion offers. It is not 

 infrequently captured alive, and is perhaps thus taken oftener than any other Owl. 



