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STRIGIDiE. 
confinement nested this spring in a small covered box, 
which was placed in a corner of their cage. They laid 
four eggs about the middle of the month of May, two of 
which they soon broke, but hatched the other two early 
in June. The two young ones did not long survive: how 
they disappeared I am unable to say, and am almost dis¬ 
posed to think the old birds must have devoured them. 
I regret, owing to the nest being placed in a covered box, 
I was unable correctly to ascertain the period of incu¬ 
bation.” 
I believe with Mr. Gould that this is not the Strix 
passerina of Linnaeus, and have therefore followed him in 
adopting Nilsson’s name of nudipes. 
