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Some Notes on Indiana Birds. 



Amos W. Butlkr. 



yyctca nyctca (Snowy Owl). — One reported by Louis A. Test, upon 

 authority of J. Keegan, as having been talveu near Washington, Daviess 

 County, Indiana. November 5, 1904. 



I saw one in Deschler's cigar store, Lahr House, Lafayette, which 

 was procured by Geo. M. Timberlake from a man who shot it about fifteen 

 miles south of Lafayette in the winter of 1901-02. Beasley and Parr, taxi- 

 dermists, Lebanon, report that they mounted this specimen in November 

 or early in December of 1901. Snowy Owls have been more generally dis- 

 tributed over the State tlie present winter and more individuals have been 

 reported than ever before since records have been kept. 



November 25, 1905, while at Hammond, Lake County, Mr. LeGrand 

 T. Meyer told me that two fine specimens of this bird had been taken near 

 that place a few days before. One of these we saw afterwards in the 

 possession of Mr. Schmid, who mounted it and who also had the other 

 one at the same time in his work room. Mr. Meyer has kindly supplied 

 ine with the following data of these, and three other birds of the same 

 species taken in that vicinity : 



First. — A man by the name of Johnson killed one on November 12, 

 1905, about a mile and a half southeast of Tolleston, Indiana, in the gravel 

 pits. 



Second. — Fred Burg shot one on the lake front of Lake Michigan, near 

 Indiana Harbor, on November 19, 1905, which is now in the possession of 

 jNlr. Louis Freeze of Hammond. 



Third. — Wm. J. Thompson killed one near Wolf Lake ice houses in 

 Hammond, on November 25, 1905. This one was on the top of a telegraph 

 pole when killed. 



Fourth. — One was killed on Wolf liake, near Lake Michigan, in Ham- 

 mond, by a person unknown to me, which is now in the possession of Louis 

 Mankowski of this city, which was killed November 23, 1905. 



Fifth. — At the time it was killed there was another one with it which 

 the hunter was unable to secure, 

 10— A. OF Science, 



