406 BIRDS — STEIGID^. 



Strix bxammea Linnaeus. 

 var. AMERICANA (Aud.) Cs. 



Sam OtstI. 



Strix pratincola, Kirkpatmck, Ohio Parmer, viii, 1859, 35 ; Ohio Agrio. Eep. for 1858, 



1859, 373 (probable).— Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. R«p. for 1860, 361 ; Eeprint, 1861, 3. 

 Strix flammea, Whbaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrie. Kep. for 1874, 570 ; Reprint, 



1875, 10. 

 Strix flammea, var. americana, Langdon, Cat. Birds of Gin., 1877, 12 ; Jonrn. Gin. Soo. 



Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 115; Eeprint, 6.— WheilTON, Ball. Nntt. Orn. Clnb, iv, 1879, 62. 

 Strix flammea, ysh. pratincola, Langdon, Eeviaed List, Journ. Gin., Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 



179 ; Reprint, 13 ; Field Notes, ib., ii, 1880, 126. 



Strix flammea, Linnaeus, Syst.'Nat., i, 1766, 133. 



Strix pratincola, Bonaparte, List, 1S38, 7. 



Strix flammea, var. americana, Coues, Key, 1872, 201. 



Stnx flammea, Ya,T. pratincola, Eidgway, B. B. & E., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 13. 



Tawny or fnlvous brown, delicately olouded or marbled with ashy or white, and 

 speckled with, browuish-blaok ; below, a varying shade from nearly a pnre white to fal- 

 vous, with sparse sharp blackish speckling; face white to parplish-brown, darker or 

 black about the eyes, the disk bordered with dark-brown ; wings and tail barred with 

 brown, and finely mottled like the back ; bill whitish ; toes yellowish. Lengtli, female, 

 17 ; wing, 13 ; tail, 5it ; male rather less. 



Habitat, North America and Mexico ; not beyond the United States ; rarely north to 

 New England and the Columbia. New York. Maine. 



Rare visitor. Not over half a dozen individuals recorded. Mr. Kirkpat- 

 rick in 1859, mentions the probable occurrence of the Barn Owl in South- 

 ern Ohio. Two. years later, Mr. Kirkpatrick having positive informa- 

 tion of its occurrence and capture, I included it in my catalogue. Mr. 

 Dury subsequently informed me that Ohio specimens were in his collec- 

 tion. Mr. Langdon in 1878, mentions Mr. Dury's two specimens, and in 

 1880, says : " Mr. Shorten informs me of the capture of our third recorded 

 specimen of this species on April 14, 1880, at Foster's Landing, on the 

 Ohio River, 36 miles above Cincinnati." 



The only specimens from this vicinity are noted by me in the Nuttall 

 Bulletin (I. c), as follows : 



" Mr. Oliver Davie, of this city, has a specimen of this bird killed in this vicinity, 

 November 2, 1878. This is Its northermost appearance in the interior, except on one 

 occasion, recorded by Mr. E. W. Nelson (Bull. Ess. las., 1876, Vol. VIII, p. 116), of two 

 taken in a trap near Chicago. Dr. Howard E. Jones informs me that he killed a speci- 

 men twenty-five miles south of Columbus, near Circleville, in the summer of 1873, which 

 is now in the Museum of Hobart College, Geneva, New York." 



The dates of these captures indicate that the bird is at least a sum- 

 mer resident of the State. The eggs, from three to six in number are 



