ACADIAN OWL. 415 



Mr. Kirkpatrick is our chief authority for its insertion here. He 



says : 



"This species is rare in Ohio. With ns it is in all probability a winter visitor only. It 

 breeds, however, in some of the mere Morthsrn States and in Canada, and is said to 

 feed on small qaadrnpeds, gronse amA ptarmigan, and often endeavors to seize the 

 small game shot by the hunter.'' 



Mr. Langdon thinks that he has seen this species at St. Mary's Reser- 

 voir. 



It is said to breed in the hollows of trees, or more rarely in the branches, 

 in which case the nest is constructed of sticks, grass and feathers. The 

 eggs are said to number from five to eight, and measure about 1.50 by 

 1.20. 



GBNtJS NTGTALE. [Brehm. 



Size small. No ear-tnfts ; facial disc perfect ; ears opercalate ; tarsus and toes densely 

 feathered. 



Nyctalb acadica (Gm.) Bp. 



.A.cadian OtvI; Sa'wr-wrliet OtvI. 



Strix acadica, Audubon, Oru. Biog., ii, 1834, 537.— Kiktland, Ohio Geolog. Surv,, 1833, 

 161, 179.— Ekad, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1853, 303 ; Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 

 395. 



Ulula acadica, Audubon, B. Am., i, 1840, 124. 



ifyciaJe acadia, (error) Kibkpatrick, Ohio Farmer, viii, 1859, 9; Ohio Agric. Kep. for 

 1858, 1859, 381. 



Ifyciale acadica, Bkewkk, N. A. Oology, Smithsonian Contribntions, xi, 1859, 74, 133, pi. 

 45.— Whbaton, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 361 ; Reprint, 3 ; Food of Birds, etc., 

 Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 570 ; Reprint, 1§ — COUBS, Birds of N. W., 1874, 316. 

 — Baikd, Bkewkk and Ridgway, N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 45. — Langdon, Cat. Birds of 

 Cin., 1877, la; Revised List, Jonrn. Cin. Soo. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 179; Reprint, 13.— 

 DURY and Freeman, ib., iii, 1860, 104 ; Reprint, 5, 



Strix acadica, Gmelin, Syst., Nat., i, 1788, 296. 

 Nyctale ocadtco,'^BoNAPAETB, Comp. List, 1838, 7. 



Size small. Bill, black, the cere tumid, the circular nostrils presenting anteriorly. 

 Above chocolate-brown, spotted with white, the tail with transverse white bars ; facial 

 area and forehead variegated with white, the face and superciliary line grayish- white ; 

 the lower parts white with streaks of the color of the back. Length, 7^8 ; wing, S-J ; 

 tail, Sf. 



Habitat,'.Temperate North America from Atlantic to Pacific j chiefly, however. North- 

 em United States and adjoining British territory ; ranging southward, in wooded 

 mountainous regions, into Mexico. 



Not ;^uncommon resident in Northern, resident or winter visitor in 

 Middle and Southern Ohio. Breeds. 



