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 Jan., 1910 SOME CENTRAL COLORADO BIRD NOTES 31 and ong collected at Sand Creek, 3 miles north of Medano Ranch, and one seen at Westcliffe. Falc0 8parveriu8 phaloena. Desert Sparrow Hawk. Seen several times between Cation City and Salida, also between Villa Grove and Moffat; one was seen at Medano Ranch, and one near Mosca Creek, also in Madenos Cation. Some were seen near Westcliffe; one or two east of uerida; a dead one seen near Beulah. Some were seen along the road north from Pueblo, and one near Fountain, that is, I thought it was a Sparrow Hawk, while Durand was sure it was a Sharp-shin--it might well have been either in that locality. I have listed all these as Desert Sparrow Hawks, though no specimens were taken. Asio wilsonittnus. Long-cared Owl. At our camp at a deserted ranch, just outside the town of Hooper, Durand found the dead bodies of one adult, apparently a female, and three young Long-cared Owls, and one living young bird, the latter perched in a tree; it was able to fly. I secured several photographs of it, all taken Fig. 13. YOUNG IONCr-EARED OWL, PHOTOGRAPHED NEAR HOOPER, COIORADO on the ground. I found a pair with one young one at Sand Creek, near Medano Ranch, June 24, at an old Magpie's nest. The youngster was not as well grown as the one at Hooper. Durand also saw an owl of this species near Westcliffe. Asi0 flammeus. Short-eared Owl. I killed one near Mosca, January 22, 1908. 0tus ttamme01a. Flammulated Screech Owl. Although no specimens of this species were taken or seen by me, I have thought it best to include it in this paper in order to correct some errors of locality in previous papers. Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club., IV, p. 188, 1879, records a specimen taken by C. E. Aiken, June 15, 1875, and gives the locality as Poncha Pass. In conversation with Mr. Aiken he tells me that this bird was not taken on Poncha Pass, and as a matter of fact he never was at Poncha Pass. He took the specimen, together with one egg from a hollow tree, while traveling by wagon from the Arkansas River, just below where Parkdale is now (the same place where I crossed it this year) to the Wet Mountain Valley. After examining the road map, and talking it over with me to refresh his