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Nova Scotia both winter and summer. (Downs; Gilpin; Tufts.) 

 An abundant resident in New Brunswick. (Chamberlain.) A 

 permanent resident at Scotch Lake, York county, N.B.; tolerably 

 common. (W. H. Moore.) Taken at Beauport; a resident in 

 Quebec. (Dionne.) A permanent resident at Montreal, but not 

 common. I shot a female and male specimens October 25th, 1889, 

 and February 8th, 1890, on the spur of Mount Royal. (Winfle.) 

 A moderately common resident in the Ottawa district. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) Along the southern boundary of Ontario the 

 barred owl is by no means rare, but farther north I have not heard 

 of it being observed. (Mcllwraith.) A common resident in Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka districts ; also at C^che lake, Algonquin park. 

 Regular winter resident at Toronto, Ont. (/. H. Fleming.) The 

 most northern point I have met this bird is Whitney on the Parry 

 Sound railway, northern Ontario. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A rare 

 resident in the London district. (W. E. Saunders.) Rare and 

 probably migratory. A summer resident though rare; more com- 

 mon east of Winnipeg, Man. (E. T. Seton.) I have two records of 

 this species for Manitoba, one at Ochre river, the other within the 

 Portage la Prairie town limits. (Atkinson.) This species was 

 described from a specimen sent from Hudson bay by Mr. Graham. 

 I have never observed the bird in my travels in America. (Richard- 

 son.) 



Breeding Notes. — A few of these birds are met with every 

 year along the St. Lawrence but it is not common. The nest has 

 been found in a hole in a tree near Kingston, Ont., and a few years 

 ago I saw five young birds that were shot about a mile outside of 

 the town of Brockville, Ont., in July. (Rev. C. J. Young.) Rare; 

 no authentic record of its breeding near London, Ont., though 

 doubtless it does so. (W. E. Saunders.) 



369a. Spotted Owl. 



Syrnium occidentale caurinum C. H. Merriam. 1898. 



I saw a specimen of this owl which was taken a few miles down 

 the Fraser from Chilliwack, B.C. ; apparently confined to the lower 

 Fraser valley, where it is a rare and local resident. (Brooks.) 



