406 BIRDS—STRIGIDA. 
STRIX FLAMMEA Linnecus. 
var. AMERICANA (Aud.) Cs. 
Barn Owl. 
Sirix pratincola, KinkPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, viii, 1859, 35; Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1858, 
1859, 373 (probable).—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 361; Reprint, 1861, 3. 
Strix flammea, WHEATON, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agrie. Rep. for 1874, 570; Reprint, 
1875, 10. 
Strix flammea, var. americana, LANGDON, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 12; Journ. Cin. Soe. 
Nat. Hist., i, 1878, 115; Reprint, 6—Wae8atTon, Bull. Natt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 62. 
Strix flammea, var. pratincola, LANGDON, Revised List, Journ. Cin., Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 
179; Reprint, 13; Field Notes, ib., ii, 1880, 126. 
Strix flammea, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 133. 
Strix pratincola, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 7. 
Strix jlammea, var. americana, Couxs, Key, 1872, 201. 
Stric flammea, var. pratincola, Ringway, B. B. & R., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 13. 
Tawny or fulvous brown, delicately clouded or marbled with ashy or white, and 
speckled with brownish-black ; below, a varying shade from nearly'a pure white to ful- 
vous, with sparse sharp blackish speckling; face white to purplish-brown, darker or 
black about the eyes, the disk bordered with dark-brown; wings aad tail barred with 
brown, and finely mottled like the back; bill whitish ; toes yellowish. Length, female, 
17; wing, 13; tail, 54; male rather less. 
Habitat, North America and Mexico; not beyond the United States ; rarely north to 
New England and the Columbia. New York. Maine. 
Rare visitor. Not over half adozen individuals recorded. Mr. Kirkpat- 
rick in 1859, mentions the probable occurrence of the Barn Owl in South- 
ern Ohio. Two years later, Mr. Kirkpatrick having positive informa- 
tion of its occurrence and capture, I included it in my catalogue. Mr. 
Dury subsequently informed me that Ohio specimens were in his collec- 
tion. Mr. Langdon in 1878, mentions Mr. Dury’s two specimens, and in 
1880, says: “‘ Mr. Shorten informs me of the capture of our third recorded 
specimen of this species on April 14, 1880, at Foster’s Landing, on the 
Ohio River, 36 miles above Cincinnati.” 
The only specimens from this vicinity are noted by me in the Nuttall 
Bulletin (1. c.), as follows: 
‘‘Mr. Oliver Davie, of this city, bas a specimen of this bird killed in this vicinity, 
November 2, 1878. This is its northermost appearance in the interior, except on one 
occasion, recorded by Mr. E. W. Nelson (Bull. Ess. Ias., 1876, Vol. VIII, p. 116), of two 
taken in a trap near Chicago. Dr. Howard E. Jones informs me that he killed a apeci- 
men twenty-five miles south of Columbus, near Circleville, in the sammer of 1873, which 
is now in the Museum of Hobart College, Geneva, New York.” 
The dates of these captures indicate that the bird is at least a sum- 
mer resident of the State. The eggs, from three to six in number are 
