. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . grees they become confident on the wing, and ableto take care of themselves. Such duties and pleasuresover, the birds display more strongly than in spring theirsociable and almost gregarious nature, being generallyseen trooping in considerable numbers until late in thefall, when all but the most hardy individuals make theii:way southward. 86 STRIGID^ : OWLS. Family STRIGID^: Owls. BARN flammeus pratincola {Bp) Coues. Chars. Facial disc highly developed. No tufts on head. Ex-ternal ear very large, operculate. Plumag
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . grees they become confident on the wing, and ableto take care of themselves. Such duties and pleasuresover, the birds display more strongly than in spring theirsociable and almost gregarious nature, being generallyseen trooping in considerable numbers until late in thefall, when all but the most hardy individuals make theii:way southward. 86 STRIGID^ : OWLS. Family STRIGID^: Owls. BARN flammeus pratincola {Bp) Coues. Chars. Facial disc highly developed. No tufts on head. Ex-ternal ear very large, operculate. Plumage very downy. Colorsabove, tawny, clouded with ashy and whitish, speckled with black-ish. Below, varying from whitish to fulvous, with sparse, sharpblackish spots ; face white or fulvous, dark about the eyes, andbordered with dark brown. Wings and tail barred with brown,and mottled like the back. Feet bristly, but not densely , ; wing, ; tail, ; bill whitish;toes yellowish. Of the thirteen species of Owls found in New Eng-. FiG. 15. — Foot of Barn Owl. Natural size. land, the present is the rarest, excepting the BurrowingOwl, which only occurs accidentally. The Barn Owl islittle more than a straggler to southern New England;and the recorded instances of its occurrence are veryfew. Many years ago, a specimen was taken by the BUBO VIRGINIANUS ! GREAT HORNED OWL. 8/ Rev. J. H. Linsley at Stratford, Conn. (Am. Jour. Sci.,xliv, 1843, P- 253). According to Mr. Merriam, one wasfound by Dr. Wm. O. Ayres at Hartford, Conn., about theyear 1841 ; and another was killed at Madison, Conn.,some years ago (B. Conn., 1877, p. 6^). The fourthrecord for the State is given by Mr. J. A. Allen, whostates that Dr. William Wood has a specimen in hiscabinet shot at Sachems Head, Conn., Oct. 28, 1865(Am. Nat., iii, 1870, p. 570). There are two Massa-chusetts records : the first, given by Dr. Coues on Mr,Allens authority, of a specimen killed near Springfield
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