. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 236 NESTS AND mas OF Called the American Hoot Owl or Wood Owl, and Round-headed Owl. A large dark-eyed species, common to wooded lantis of Eastern United States, especially bottom woods; those of swamps, along ravines and rivers where there is a heavy growth of tall timber. The loud, laughing notes of this Owl, heard in the night, are something terrible, and if heard about the farm-house or camp-fire will not soon be forgotten. Its flight is soft, as if on wings of down, noiseless, quick and easy. Nests in hollows of trees, in old nests o
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 236 NESTS AND mas OF Called the American Hoot Owl or Wood Owl, and Round-headed Owl. A large dark-eyed species, common to wooded lantis of Eastern United States, especially bottom woods; those of swamps, along ravines and rivers where there is a heavy growth of tall timber. The loud, laughing notes of this Owl, heard in the night, are something terrible, and if heard about the farm-house or camp-fire will not soon be forgotten. Its flight is soft, as if on wings of down, noiseless, quick and easy. Nests in hollows of trees, in old nests of hawks and crows. In Ohio it is said to breed as early as the last of February, but I have always found it nesting in April and the first half of May. In New London county, Connecticut, Mr. C. L. Rawson has taken eggs of this Owl in February, which were deposited on a solid cake of ice In a cavity or in the open nest; he states that of late years full clutches of eggs are deposited by the last of March. The usual time of nesting in Iowa is March and April. The same nesting place is occupied by the birds for years, even after being robbed many times. The eggs are two or three in number, very rarely four; globular, white. Between the eggs of this species and those of the Great Horned Owl there is commonly considerable difference in di- ' mensions in favor of the former, but sometimes they approach each other so closely that to identify them by size alone is impossible. The Barred Owls' eggs measure in long diameter from to , and in short diameter from to 368. Barked Owl (After Jasper). 368a. FLORIDA BARBED OWL. Syniium nebulosum alleiii Ridgw. Geog. Dist.—Florida, Texas, Louisiana and adjoining regions. A darker colored race found in Florida, Texas, etc. Mr. Sin^ley states this is the commonest owl in Lee county, Texas, where it frequents almost exclusively the thick wooded bottom lands. He found seventeen nests in hollows of trees with eggs or young, and
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