52 Oneida Historical Society. 



113 Strix varia varia. 



BARRED OWL. 



A not uncommon resident. Breeds. A nest and two eggs 

 taken near Holland Patent April 18, 1889. One flew against a 

 gentleman in one of the streets of the closely built part of the 

 citv, grasping his clothes with its claws, was struck down with 

 his fist and killed with a stone. 



114. Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa. 

 GREAT GRAY- OWL. 



A rare straggler from the north. Messrs. T- P- & F- J- Davis, 

 taxidemists, mounted a bird of this species which was killed 

 in the town of Marcy in February, 1875. In the "Auk," Vol. 

 XII, page 301, Mr. W. S. Johnson records the killing of a 

 specimen at White Lake in February, 1895. 



115. Cryptoglaux acadica acadica. 

 SAW-WHET OWL. 



A not very .uncommon resident in the northern part of the 

 county. Several nests have been taken and as such records are 

 uncommon I repeat in full some of the accounts which we 

 have published before. 



In the neighborhood of Holland Patent, seven or eight indi- 

 vidjals have been, under careful surveillance this spring 

 (1886). The result of a good deal of hard work in exceedingly 

 unpleasant weather, has been the finding of four nests. The 

 first was found March 12th, at which time it contained noth- 

 ing; was visited again March 25th — still empty. But on April 

 5th k contained six eggs. Being left till the seventh, the com- 

 plement was found to be seven eggs. It was situated in high 

 and dry woods of hardwood timber, with a few hemlocks, 

 about five rods from the open field, in a deserted woodpecker's 

 hole in a dead maple stub, twenty-two feet from the groimd. 

 This hole had been left by the original woodpeckers at least 



