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370 Scotlaptex nebulosa (Forster). 

 Great Gray Owl. 



Adults. Length, 25-30. Wing, 16-18. Brownish-gray, mottled with white; 

 face, gray, barred with black; below, grayish-white; breast streaked and ab- 

 domen barred with brown ; bill and eyes, yellow. 



Very rare straggler in winter. Thurber (1887) records one shot 

 near Mendham many years ago, and Dr. C. C. Abbott (1868) states 

 that one was killed in Sussex county in December, 1859. I know of 

 no other record for the State. 



372 Cryptoglaux acadica (Grmelin). 

 Saw-whet Owl, Acadian Owl. 



Adults. Length, 25-30. Wing, 16-18. Brown above; forehead narrowly 

 streaked ; back and wings spotted with white ; tail with several narrow white 

 bars ; under parts, white, coarsely streaked with reddish-brown ; feet, white ; 

 face, white ; eye ring and ear-coverts, dusky. 



Winter resident; apparently regular, but somewhat variable in 

 abundance or local. Mr. Babson records but two at Princeton during 

 his experience, but in the winter of 1878-9 Mr. W. E. D. Scott took 

 about twenty-five, 1 eighteen between December 1st and llth. 2 



Our records for South Jersey are Cape May, December 1st, 1904 

 (Hand) ; Friendship, December 20th, 1899 (W. B. Evans) ; 3 May's 

 Landing, December 2d (S. N. Rhoads) ; 4 Cape May Point (Spaeth) ; 

 Haddonfield, November 15th, 1907. 



This is our smallest Owl, and is easily overlooked. 



1 Birds of Princeton, p. 51. 



2 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 85. 



3 Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., IV., p. 2. 



4 Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C., II., p. 7. 



