64 - The Great Gray Owl. ( Syrnium Cinereum. By Wm. Couper. 
Ibid.. V, p. 54, Sept. 1880.— Capture of young birds in the downy plu- 
mage in Canada. QQlQgi&ii 
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A.H.Alberger. 
370. Great Gray Owl. One taken in the 
fall. 1889. 
' Oj XV, 3tae 1 1890, p»87 
Nawfoundland Notes. A Trip up the 
Humber Biver, Aug. 10 - Sept, 24, 1889, 
25. Scotiaptex cinerea. Great Gray Owl. — One seen August 23. 
Louis H. Porter, New York City. 
Auk, XVII, Jan., 1900, Q.J2,. 
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Great Gray Owl ( Scotiaptex nebulosa). A specimen of this 
rather rare casual visitant was shot last Nov. 20, by Mr. W. Kelley, 
a farmer of South March, fourteen miles west of Ottawa. 
Screech Owl ( Megascops asio ). — This species has now 
been definitely established as breeding here. Last July and 
August Mr. George White found at various times 4-5 Screech 
Owls in a rarely used outbuilding, to which they had found an 
entrance, but could not find the exit. Two were starved to death 
when found, the others were yet alive and were released. 
2 Transactions of the Canadian Institute, I, 1889-90, 5. 
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141. Scotiaptex nebulosa. Great Gray Owl. — Winter migrant 
of irregular occurrence. The great flight that took place in the winter of 
.. 4 gg 9 _gO ig recorded by Mr. Wm. Cross. “I have received twenty-three 
specimens, and have had them reported from various parts of the Province. 
One of my acquaintances stationed at Barrie, received twenty-six this 
season. They began to come into this region in November, and increased 
in numbers up to February, after which they became very scarce again.” 2 
This is the largest flight recorded, but specimens have been taken in 
December, 1890, January, 1894, January and March, 1895, and January 
and February, 1896; the visits appear to have ceased after this. O 
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