2l8 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



I Oth, 1866. 1 This is probably the specimen now in the Peabody Academy 

 collection, labeled, " Salem, January, 1867." It is the specimen spoken of by 

 Maynard 2 as having been taken during the winter of 1866-67 by F- W. Putnam. 

 The sixth bird was taken at Lynn, 3 in the winter of 1872 ; and the seventh was 

 a female, now in the Peabody Academy collection, taken at Marblehead, on 

 February 16th, 1891. In this year, the winter of 1890-91, a considerable 

 flight of the Great Gray Owls occurred throughout eastern Maine reaching also 

 into eastern Massachusetts. Mr. Brewster 4 states that in Maine they "were 

 killed in such numbers that a single taxidermist (Mr. Crosby of Bangor) 

 received no less than twenty-seven specimens." It will be seen that three or 

 nearly one half of our specimens were taken in Marblehead. Howe and Allen 

 have seventeen records in all for the State but they omit the 1864 record and 

 the 1 89 1 Marblehead record. 



162 [371] Cryptoglaux tengmalmi richardsoni (Bonap.). 

 Richardson's Owl. 



Irregular and very rare winter visitor. 



There are seven records for this rare bird in Essex County, as follows : 

 (1) Lynn, 1863, a bird taken by J. Southwick 6 ; (2) a female taken in Lynn on 

 February 4th, 1882 6 ; (3) a male, taken in Salem, in 1884, now in the Peabody 

 Academy collection ; (4) a specimen taken at Saugus, December, 1885, and 

 now in the Peabody Academy collection; (5) a bird of this species was found 

 dead in Peabody, on February 2d, 1889"; (6) Mr. M. A. Frazar, received for 

 mounting, a specimen taken on a fishing schooner off the coast of Essex County, 

 in January, 1903 ; (7) an adult male was caught in a barn in Ipswich by some 

 boys in March, 1903. It was mounted by Dr. F. H. Stockwell and is now in 

 my collection. Howe and Allen give the record of numbers 1, 2, and 5, of the 

 above and in addition ten other records for other places in the State. 



1 J. A. Allen: Amer. Nat., vol. 3, p. 570, 1870. 



a C. J. Maynard: The Naturalist's Guide, p. 130, 1S70. 



3 S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway : Land Birds, vol. 3, p. 32, 1S74. 



* Wm. Brewster, ed. : Minot's Land-birds and Game-birds of New England, p. 345, 1895. 



'J. A. Allen: Amer. Nat., vol. 3, p. 646, 1870. 



6 Everett Smith: Forest and Stream, vol. 20, p. 285, 18S3. 



'G. O. Welch : Ornithologist and Oologist, vol. 14, p. 30, 1889. 



