An Owl-eating Owl. — In the cloudy morning of April 14, 1879, a 
male Barred Owl ( Strix nebulosa ) was shot in a thickly-built part of 
the city of Troy, N. Y., from the stomach of which I took several of the 
larger feathers, and one entire foot, tarsus and tibia, of a smaller Owl, — 
probably Scops asio. — Austin F. Park, Troy, N. Y. 
Bull. N. O.O. 5, July, 1880, p. 5 
Barred Owl. — A very fine specimen was 
brought me by a friend a few days ago, 
who, while driving along saw it perched on 
the fence. A club was thrown at it, but as 
it did not move my friend walked up to it 
and found it was blind. He lifted it into 
his sleigh and brought it in, when I found 
that the bird had had iritis, in which ex- 
treme adhesions had taken place, render- 
ing the eyes almost wholly useless. The 
bird has a fine plumage although almost a 
skeleton. — G-. A. McCallum , Dunville, 
Ontario. O.&O. Vlll. Mar. 1883. p.Ji 
Amount of Food Consumed by the 
Barred Owl 
BY C. S. BRIMLEY, RALEIGH, N. C. 

As a matter of some interest I give the 
■ amount of food consumed by a young Barred 
Owl from June 4th to 26th inclusive, viz. 
twenty-three days, while in confinement : 
1 Purple Gallinule. 
20 Catbirds and other birds of same size. 
12 Birds size of Orchard Oriole. 
27 Chipping Sparrows and other birds of 
same size. 
10 House rats. 
16 Meadow and other mice. 
1 Lizzard. 
2 Terrapins (flesh off). 
In all eighty-nine animals, birds etc., an av- 
erage of three per diem, which in round num- 
bers would be 1,000 a year, and the Owl didn’t 
get what he considered a full meal more than 
twice during the twenty-three days. 
O.&O. XII. Aug. 1887 P-122 
Something about Owls. 
O. O. Ormsbee, Montpelier, Vt. 
Of the Barred Owl, inhabiting the entire 
country east of the Rocky Mountains, one 
hundred and nine stomachs were examined, 
Five contained poultry or game-birds, 
thirteen contained other birds, five contained 
Squirrels, four contained Rabbits, and the 
! others contained Mice, Frogs, Lizards, etc. 
O. & O. Yol. 18, Oot. 1893 p.138 
, Though I came up to Killingly in pursuit of 
the winter birds, I will leave it to the reader if 
the birds are not “getting onto” me. Just 
listen. A week ago last Friday evening, when 
walking by the side of Alexander’s Lake, with 
skates in my hand, a B arred Owl of common 
size but unexampled courage disputed my pas- 
sage across a small stream of water. I could 
not make out whether Syrnium was a-fisliing, 
looking for rodents in the rockwork, or had 
some dead quarry near. After a short prelimi- 
nary skirmish, his audacity cost him a blow 
from a skate, which put him “out of it” for | 
awhile. But after I had dropped my skates 
and picked up my specimen to smooth its plum- 
age, the “specimen” came to life witli a ven- 
geance, and, assaulting me in the flank, fixed 
its talons into my overcoat and the small of my 
hack. Then ensued a battle-royal that would 
have made the gentle reader laugh in owlish 
glee to witness. The angry owl, hissing and 
snapping its bill, and still working its talons 
through kersey, kilt and jaeger; and J. M. VV. 
trying to shako himself free, jumping, swearing 
and blindly striking at his enemy in the rear 
with an old burnt sassafras stick. 
^ . W . UJ — . 
Marob. 1892. p * 3 S' 
