_Aluco pratincola pratincola. Case 3, Fig. 17_
A light-colored Owl, looking almost white in the
dusk. L. 18.
_Range._ Barn Owls are found throughout the world.
Our species is rare north of New Jersey and Ohio.
It is migratory only at the northern limit of its
range.
Washington, not rare P.R. Ossining, A.V.
This is the 'Monkey-faced Owl' of towers and steeples. Few who hear its
loud, sudden scream or rapidly repeated _crree-crree-crree_ know their
author, who may live for years in the heart of a village a stranger to
its human inhabitants. The mice, however, have tragic evidence of his
presence in the nightly raids he makes upon their ranks. The nest is
made in the diurnal retreat, 5-9 white eggs being laid in April.