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20th. {Packard.) The commonest owl in Newfoundland or the 

 one most frequently seen. {Reeks.) Now becoming very rare in 

 Nova Scotia. {Downs.) A rare bird in New Brunswick, but occa- 

 sionally taken. {Chamberlain.) Winter visitor ; rare at Scotch 

 Lake, York Co., N.B. {W.H.Moore.) Fort Churchill, Hudson 

 Bay. {Clarke.) Fort Churchill and York Factory, Hudson Bay. 

 {Dr. R. Bell.) Rare at Lake Mistassini, northern Quebec ; seen only 

 in winter. (/. M. Macpun.) Taken at Beauport ; not common in 

 Quebec. {Dionne) Transient visitor at Montreal. Some years 

 this owl is common in the woods around Montreal and frequently 

 shot in autumn or early winter. {Winile.) A winter visitant at Otta- 

 wa, Ont., but rare. {Ottawa Naturalist,Yo\N .) In southern Ontario 

 this species can only be regarded as a rare winter visitor; it seems 

 to be more frequent in Muskoka and further north. {Mcllwraith.) 

 A few were taken, some years ago, about Toronto, but it seldom 

 comes here now ;T have had specimens from both Parry Sound 

 and Muskoka districts ; it is rare and not by any means a regular 

 winter visitor. {J. H. Fleming?) I met with two birds of this species 

 at Whitney, Parry Sound Railway in December, i898,and obtained 

 another in the same month at Scotia Junction. (/. Hughes- 

 Samuel^ No recent record of this species in the London district. 

 {W. E. Saunders.) 



This species is an irregular winter visitant in Manitoba, but 

 Mr. Hunter states he is positive that it is a permanent resident 

 and breeds in the wooded country east of the Red River. It is 

 certainly common and very abundant some winters. {Thompson- 

 Seton.) This is a common species throughout the Northwest 

 Territories, and from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. In summer it 

 feeds principally on mice and insects, but in winter it preys 

 chiefly on ptarmigan. {Richardson.) North to the Arctic coast 

 on the Mackenzie ; common. {Ross.) This is perhaps the most 

 abundant resident bird of prey throughout the entire wooded part 

 of northern Alaska. It is rather closely limited to the region of 

 spruce and pine forests of the interior, and occurs along the open 

 coasts of the Arctic and Behring Sea merely as a straggler, and' 

 is unknown from the various islands of Behring Sea. {Nelson.) 

 This species is a very common resident in the Yukon district. 

 Along the coast it is quite abundant. {Turner.) Rock Creek, 

 Lake Osyoos. {Lord) A resident east of the Coast Range ; 

 west occasionally to Vancouver island ; breeds along the valley 



