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ing the description of this speci’s, having been shot some years ago at 
Huntsburg, Geauga county.” Mr. Langdon states that it has been “iden- 
tified by Mr. Dury in Clarke county, Ohio; and Mr. Quick is confident 
that he has seen a specimen taken at B-ookville, Indiana.” 
Dr. Brewer describes the nest of this bird as placed in trees, and com- 
posed of sticks and moss with a lining of down. An egg in his posses- 
sion “is small for the size of the bird, and is of a dull soiled-white color, 
oblong in shape, and decidedly more pointed at one end than at the 
other.” It measures 2.25 inches in length by 1.78 in breadth. 
SYRNIUM NEBULO3UM (Forst.) Boie. 
Barred Owl. 
Strix nebulosa, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geo'og. Surv., 1338, 161 —ReapD, Fam, Visitor, iii, 1*53, 
3033; Proce Phila, Acad. Nat. Sci, vi, 1°53, 395. 
Sy nium nebulosum, KIRKPATRICK, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1858, 378.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. 
Rep. for 1¢60, 361; Reprint, 1361, 3; Food of Birda, ete., Ohio Agris. Rep. for 1374, 
570; Reprint, 1875, 10 —LANGDON, Cat. Birdsof Cin., 1877, 12; Revised List, Cin. Soc. 
Nat. Hist, i, 1879, 179; Reprint, 13. 
Strix nbulosa, FORSTER, Tr. Philos, Soc., Ixii, 3°6, 424. 
Syrnium nebulosum, ‘‘ Bork ”’—Gray, Genera of Birds. 
dove cinereous-brown, barred with white, often tinged with fulvous; below similar, 
paler, the markings in bars on the breast, in streaks elaewhere; quills and tail feathers 
barred with brown and white with an ashy or fulvous tinge. Length about 1%; wing, 
13-14; tail, 9. 
Habitat, North America, east of the Rocky Mountains. Chiefly United States. 
Common resident. The Barred Owl, or, as frequently called, the 
Round: headed Owl is common in all parts of the State. It frequents 
woods and wooded swamps, not unfrequently visiting towns and cities. 
Like the Great Horned Owl, it sometimes visits chicken: roosts and causes 
great devastation, but its ordinary food consist of squirrels, rats, mice and 
small birds. 
The nest of the Barred Owl is frequently placed in the cavity of 
a tree or in the deserted nest of a Hawk or Crow; less frequently it 
constructs for itself a nest of sticks. The eggs are white and measure 
2. by 1 65. 
Genus NYCTEA. Stephens. 
Size large. No ear-tufts; facial disc incomplete. Eyes and ears moderate. Tarsi 
and toes densely covered with long hair-like feathers. 
