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SHORT-EARED OWL. 
SHOET-EAEED OWL. 
Otus brachyotus, Linn . 
PLATE XXXVIII.— Male. 
Although this species is by no means scarce in almost any part of the 
United States, in the latter half of autumn and during winter, very few indi- 
viduals spend the summer south of the Great Pine Swamp of Pennsylvania, 
where, however, some occasionally breed. In Nova Scotia, its nest has 
frequently been met with, and in Newfoundland it is as common as the 
Barred Owl is in Louisiana. In winter I have found it so plentiful in the 
Floridas, that I have shot seven in the course of a morning, while I was at 
General Hernandez’. Indeed I was surprised to see the great number of 
