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VOL. XVIII. NO. 11. ALBION. N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1901. Whole No. 182 



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The Spotted Owl. 



[Syrnium occidentale.) 

 Br Harry H. Dunn, Fullerton, Cal, 



Of this owl, probably the rarest 

 North American species of its genus, 

 very little appears to be known. At 



least, when, a year or two aj^n, I at- 

 tempted to gather together a little in- 

 formation on the genus Syrnium, I 

 met with very meager results concern- 

 ing this particular bird Of its occur- 

 rence in Southern California I was then 

 quite well assured as I had seen 

 feathers, which I supposed belonged 

 to this species, on the ground under 

 trees which were evidently the nightly 

 "hunting boxes" of some owl. But it 

 was not until this season that I became 

 thoroughly acquainted with this large, 

 dark-colored bird in its summer heme 

 and as I have tak'^n three sets of two, 

 three and four eggs respectively, I feel 

 warranted in inflicting myself upon 

 sueh readers as I may have with a short 

 description of bird and nesting habits. 

 The country round about my home, 

 here on the north western border of 

 Orange county, is extremely hilly and 

 given over to small and precipitous 

 cliffs The hills are not what would in 

 the east or middle west be called "well 

 wooded," but in some of the more 

 protected canyons a heavy growth of 

 oak and sycamore with now and then a 

 Cottonwood may be found. On March 

 26th of the present ye.nr, I was making 

 my way up one of the larger of these 

 canyons keeping a sharp lookout for 

 Western Red-tails and Pacific Horned 

 Owls, whch the la*ter frequently occu- 

 py old Hawk'd nests, when my atten- 

 tion was drawn to an old oak stump 

 some fifty yards up one of the sides of 

 the canyon, by the actions of a pair of 

 Desert Sparrow Hawks. I was morally 

 certain that the little Hawks were not 

 nesting at so early a date, but I had 

 just taken two sets of Western Red- 

 tails, each consisting of four eggs, so I 

 Was ready for any old chance that hap- 

 pened to coma along. I clambered up 



