OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. I05 



118. Syrniuni iiebulosum (Forst.). Barred Owl. 



A permanent resident throughout the wooded region of the 

 state, and without doubt our commonest owl. In the White 

 Mountains, where other species of owls seem generally rare, it 

 is fairly common and of general distribution throughout the 

 sub-Canadian woodlands up to about 3,000 feet. Frank BoUes' 

 account ('90) of his pet Barred Owls taken from the nest at 

 Chocorua, on June i, 1888, contains much of value and inter- 

 est. He found these Owls much giv'en to sunning themselves 

 sleepily during the morning hours, and often, while in the 

 woods, could call up a bird by imitating its notes. Although 

 doubtless this is a strictly resident species, one alwaj^s is more 

 apt to see them in fall than at other times. There is probably 

 some slight migratory movement, as the 3'oung birds move off, 

 or the older birds change station occasionally. 



119. Scotiaptex ciiierea (Gmel.). Great Gray Owl. 

 A rare winter visitant. Mr. G. H. Thayer writes me that 



there is a mounted specimen in the possession of a farmer at 

 Chesham, which was taken some 3^ears ago in late autumn, in the 

 heavy woods to the northwest of Mt. Monadnock. Mr. James 

 P. Melzer writes that he has had two or three brought in for 

 mounting in years past, from about Milfoi^d. My friend, Mr. 

 V. D. lyowe, of Randolph, has also described to me an owl tak- 

 en in late September, 1892, on the Dead Diamond River, a 

 branch of the Megallowa5% in Wentworth's I^ocation, which 

 can hardly be other than this species. Mr. I^owe is acquainted 

 with the common owls, and I have no reason to doubt that the 

 bird in question was a Great Gray Owl. 



120. Nyctala teiiginaliiiiricliardsoiii (Bonap.). Rich- 

 ardson's Owl. 



A rare winter visitant from the north. The definite records 

 for the state appear to be the following : Chocorua^ my friend, 

 Mr. H. C. Sargent, permits me to record a specimen which he 

 shot there March i, 1900, just after an unusually heavy snow 

 storm; Cornish^ Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior ( :o2, "Errata") re- 

 cords a specimen taken " in the autumn or early winter about 



