. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 50 near Frankfort, Clinton County, in tlie summer of 1889. They were more numer- ous tlian I liave ever known them in the State during the Bummer of 1889, the succeeding winter and the past summer (1890.) Tlie fall of 1883 they appear to have heen somewhat common in southern Indiana and Ohio. The month of October of that year they were particularly numerous. Mr. Dury gave an account of a company of these occupying the tower of the town hall at Glendale, O., and also of their oc- currence in several neighboring localities at that time. (Journ. Cin.
. A catalogue of the birds of Indiana. Birds. 50 near Frankfort, Clinton County, in tlie summer of 1889. They were more numer- ous tlian I liave ever known them in the State during the Bummer of 1889, the succeeding winter and the past summer (1890.) Tlie fall of 1883 they appear to have heen somewhat common in southern Indiana and Ohio. The month of October of that year they were particularly numerous. Mr. Dury gave an account of a company of these occupying the tower of the town hall at Glendale, O., and also of their oc- currence in several neighboring localities at that time. (Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hiet., Dec, 1883.) Family Horned Owls, etc. ASIO Beisson. '135. Asio wilsonianus (/.<â ««.). American Owl. Uncommon resident northward; most numerous in fall, winter and spring, when it is also found occasionally over the southern part of the State. More nu- merous some years than others. Has been found breeding in Dekalb County, where Mr. Herbert W. McBride caught two young ones April 29, 1890. â 136. Asio accipitrinus i Pall). Short-eahed Owl; Prairie Owl. Irregular winter resident, occasionally common; resident in some numbers northward. Breeds. Two nests of the Short-eared Owl were found at English Lake about May 6, 1891, one containing three young and two eggs, the other three young. ( Deane.) During the winter of 1886-7, when owls and hawks of several species invaded the States north of the Ohio river in such unusual numbers, this was the most common species. They frequented pastures, cleared fields and roadsides. It was not uncommon to see several of these birds at one time, either Hying or alighted. They are reported to have been in flocks, in some cases as many as twenty-five in a liock. Dr. Langdon notes that, during February, 1877, a young man who was crossing a partially inundated field counted these birds as they arose before him, and at one time there were thirty in the air. There was only one tree in the field an
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