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BIRDS OF COLORADO. 
As the present writer was working on this part of this bulle¬ 
tin, January 31, 1900, one of our students caught a fine specimen 
in his hands in one of the evergreens near the main College 
building. 
Page 78. 374. Megascops flammeola. Flammulated 
Screech Owl. 
Nine new records for Colorado and four instances of breed¬ 
ing can be added to the fourteen previous specimens known. P. 
L. Jones reports one found dead May 1, 1898 ; a female and two 
fresh eggs that proved infertile, June 27,1898; a young male 
caught by a cat, September 12, 1898; a female and three eggs 
incubated about four days, June 5, 1899. All four cases were 
near Beulah, at less than 7,000 feet. Capt. D. B. Ingraham re¬ 
ports finding a female and two fresh eggs June 2, 1898, and two 
days later a female and two slightly incubated eggs, the latter 
within a hundred yards of where a female and three eggs were 
taken in 1897, near Beulah. Mr. C. E. Aiken reports two more 
specimens from Colorado Springs; one of these, taken on 
Fountain Creek, is the first summer specimen for the plains. 
There is one in the Carter collection, taken at Breckenridge, 
October 4, 1894. These make twenty-three records for Colorado 
and ten instances of nesting. 
Page 80. 375b. Bubo virginianus arcticus. Arctic Horned 
Owl. 
Mr. Aiken reports a fine specimen killed near Colorado 
Springs, November 28, 1898. Another one said to have been 
seen. These notes of course refer to the lighter mountain form. 
Up to the time of the issue of this bulletin, the A. O. U. has 
come to no conclusion in regard to what name shall be applied 
to this variety. 
Horned Owls are common at Breckenridge, but in Mr. 
Carter’s quite extensive series there are none of the lighter form. 
Page 80. 376. Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owl. 
Has been reported to Mr. Carter as taken near Breckenridge. 
The most southern record to date in Colorado is one known by 
Mr. Baker to have been seen in the Wet Mountain valley. 
Page 81. 378. Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. Burrowing 
Owl. 
One in the Carter collection, taken in Middle Park. 
Page 81. 379. Glaucidium gnoma. Pygmy Owl. 
Mr. Carter reports it as breeding at Breckenridge. 
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