416 BIRDS—STRIGIDA. 
The Acadian Owl is the smallest member of the family found with us. 
It is more nocturnal than many others of the family, and this, together 
With iis size, renders its discovery difficult. Mr. Read gives it as not un- 
common, being more frequently seen than the red variety of the Mottled 
Owl. Mr. Winslow considers it by no means rare, and Mr. Kirkpatrick 
says, ‘‘it is not plentiful with us, but may occasionally be found.” Mr. 
Langdon records but three specimens taken in the vicinity of Cincinnati, 
and considers it a winter visitor only. To this record Messrs. Dury and 
Freeman, add one, and perhaps two, individuals, one of which was taken 
May. Audubon says ‘‘in Cincinnati, I had one brought to me which 
had been taken from the edge of a cradle in which a child lay asleep, to 
the no small astonishment of its mother.” 
In this vicinity it is very rare; I have never seen it alive. On the 
ith of January 1879, my neighbor, Mr. B. J. Loomis, brought me a 
Specimen, a present from his little daughter, who found it dead, probably 
frozen, in their garden. Two specimens were taken in this vicinity late 
in November of the present year (18-0). 
It seems to be rather partial to evergreen woods, and the lack of these 
may account in part for its rarity here. Nyc ale albifrons and Nyctale kirt- 
landt which were once supposed to be distinct species, and also to 
be the young of Tengmalm’s Owl, are now known to be the young of this 
species. Mr. Winslow has a specimen of albifrons, and Dr. Brewer men- 
NycraLE TENGMALMI (Gm.) Bp. 
var. RICHARD:ONI (Be.) Ripa. 
Tenemalm’s Owl. 
Nyctale tengmalmi, var. richardsoni, Cours, Birds of N. W., 1874, 314, ‘‘ Northern Ohio 
(Winsliw).” 
Strix tengmalmi, GMELIN, i, 1785, 291. 
Nyctale richardsoni, BONAPARTE, Comp. List, 1838, 7. 
Nyctale tengmalmi, var. richardsoni, Ripaway, Am. Nat., vi, 1872, 235. 
Habitat, the typical form, Europe, Asia and Northern Africa. Var. richardsoné 
from North America; south regularly to the United States frontier; in winter rarely 
through New England, beyond which there is no record on the Atlantic. Northern Ohio 
( Winslow.) 
The above range is given to this Lird by Dr. Coues, but upon inquiry of Mr. 
Winslow for particulars respecting its occurrence, he was unable to give me any infor- 
mation, and Dr. Coues was unable to recall his authority. 
The accrediting of this bird to this fauna is, doubtless, an error, which possibly may 
have arisen from the capture of specimess of so-called albifrons and kirtlandi mentioned 
above. 
