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in the Rocky mountains, but seen in the Fraser valley at Agassiz 

 in May, 1889. (Spreadborough.) More numerous and more gener- 

 ally distributed than the preceding species, breeding in grass fields 

 and marshes instead of woods. Noted at several points along 

 the Grand Trunk Pacific railway west to Edmonton, Alta. (Atkin- 

 son.) A fair number to be seen in summer in the Red Deer district, 

 Alta. (W. E. Saunders.) 



This owl is a summer visitor in the Northwest Territories, arriv- 

 ing as soon as the snow disappears and departing in September. 

 We observed it as far north as lat. 67°, and a female killed at Fort 

 Franklin on the 20th May, contained several pretty large eggs nearly 

 ready for exclusion. (Richardson.) North of Fort Simpson on the 

 Mackenzie; common. (Ross.) Sumas and Chilliwack prairies. 

 (Lord.) Found only on the coast ; a male was taken at mid-day at 

 New Westminster. (Streator.) Abundant, both on the island and 

 on the mainland; remains on the coast throughout the winter. 

 (Fannin.) Abundant resident in the lower Fraser valley, B.C.; 

 rather common in the Okanagan district in winter; occurs in the 

 Cariboo district in winter. (Brooks.) Vancouver and Lulu islands 

 and about the lakes of the interior. (Rhoads.) The short-eared 

 owl was noted every-where during the summer from the vicinity of 

 Cape Blossom up to the Kowak, at Kotzebue sound, Alaska. (Grin- 

 nell.) This species is a regular and common migrant and summer 

 resident at St. Michael and is found as far north as Kotzebue sound 

 where skins were procured in 1880. (Nelson.) This is the com- 

 monest bird of prey in Alaska. It is to be found on all of the main- 

 land and Aleutian islands. (Turner.) Numerous specimens were 

 collected at St. Michael and one at Unalaska. (Bishop.) Not 

 uncommon in most places visited by us at the base of the Alaskan 

 peninsula in 1902. (Osgood.) Occasionally seen on the Pribilof 

 islands, especially in winter. (Palmer.) A series of nine specimens 

 was collected at Point Barrow, Alaska, June, 1898. (Mcllhenny.) 



Breeding Notes.— Not uncommon in the fall in eastern Ontario. 

 One specimen shot near Lansdowne, Ont., in 1891. Breeds every 

 year on the Magdalen islands. Gulf of St. Lawrence. This bird 

 forms a sUght nest on the ground amongst carex, sedge, etc., some- 

 times among low bushy shrubs, and lays from five to nine eggs in 

 the month of June. I have a set of nine eggs taken June 14th, 

 1898, in the northernmost part of the islands, and have no doubt a 



