412 BIRDS — STEIGIDJE. 



ing the description of this speci3S, having been shot some years ago at 

 Huntsburg, Geauga county." Mr. Langdon states that it has been "iden- 

 tified by Mr. Dury in Clarke county, Ohio; and Mr. Quick is confident 

 that he has seen a specimen taken at Brookville, Indiana." 



Dr. Brewer describes the nest of this bird as placed in trees, and com- 

 posed of sticks and moss with a lining of down. An egg in his posses- 

 sion " is small for the size of the bird, and is of a dull soiled-white color, 

 oblong in shape, and decidedly more pointed at one end than at the 

 other." It measures 2.25 inches in length by 1.78 in breadth. 



Syrnidm nebulosum (Forst.) Boie. 



Barred Owl. 



Strix nebvlosa, Kietlaijd, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 161 — -Bead, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 



303; Proo. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sol, vi, 1853, 395. 

 JSyrnhim mVulosum, Kikkpatkick, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1858, 378. — Wheaton, Ohio Agrio. 



Kep. for 1860, 361 ; Eeprint, 1861, 3 ; Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrie. Kep. f.>r 1874, 



570 ; Eeprint, 1875, 10.— Langdok, Cat. Birdsof Gin., 1877, 12 ; Revised List, Cm. Soc. 



Nat. Hist , i, 1879, 179 ; Reprint, 13. 



JStrix mluloea, Forstbr, Tr. Philoe, Soc, Ixii, 386, 424. 

 Syrnium ntbuloaum, "BoiE." — Gray, Genera of Birds. 



Ahove cinereons-brown, barred with white, often tinged with fulvous ; below similar, 

 I)aler, the marliiDgs in bars on the breast, in streaks slsewhere ; qnills and tail feathers 

 barred with brown and white with an ashy or fulvous tinge. Length about 18 ; wing, 

 13-14 ; tail, 9. 



Habitat, North America, east of the Rooky Mountains. Chiefly United States. 



Common resident. The Barred Owl, or, as frequently called, the 

 Round-headed Owl is common in all parts of the State. It frequents 

 woods and wooded swamps, not unfrequently visiting towns and cities. 

 Like the Great Horned Ovrl, it sometimes visits chicken- roosts and causes 

 great devastation, but its ordinary food consist of squirrels, rats, mice and 

 small birds. 



The nest of the Barred Owl is frequently placed in the cavity of 

 a tree or in the deserted nest of a Hawk or Crow ; less frequently it 

 constructs for itself a nest of sticks. The eggs are white and measure 

 2. by 1.65. 



Gbnus NYCTEA. Stephens. 



Size large. No ear- tufts; facial disc incomplete. Eyes and ears moderate. Tarsi 

 and toes densely covered with long hair-like feathers. 



