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1902 : "Since receiving your letter about the Snowy Owls I have 

 made enquiry concerning their movements on the island, and lind 

 there have been fourteen killed here since the middle of December. 

 Mr. John Moses, the taxidermist, informs me that they were late 

 in coming this year, and that their stay was longer than in former 

 years. They frequent the Three Islands, the Two Islands, and 

 the Duck Islands, small islands to the south of Grand Manan. 

 They live on sea gulls, ducks, rabbits, mice and partridges, as 

 portions and feathers of the above were found in them. I know 

 they eat rabbits as I lost two myself." 



Mr. Turner Ingalls, Jr., keeper Southwest Harbor Light Station, 

 Grand Manan, N. B., writes under the date of February 12, 1902 : 

 "I first noticed the Snowy Owls on January 4 after a heavy north- 

 erly gale, and they remained until about the middle of the present 

 month. I have seen eight or ten of the owls, though only three 

 have been killed." 



Maine. 



Mr. Lewis M. Todd of Calais, Me., writing under date of Feb- 

 ruary 23, 1902, states that the local taxidermist has had six or 

 seven Snowy Owls sent to him for mounting, and that six more 

 had been observed in a radius of some twenty miles. 



Mr. Homer R. Dill, State taxidermist at Gardiner, Me., reports 

 nineteen specimens of the Snowy Owl received up to February 18, 



1902. 



Mr. Manly Hardy of Brewer, Me., reports, under date of Feb- 

 ruary 17, 1902, that a good many Snowy Owls have been shot and 

 seen over quite an extent of country, one being seen some thirty 

 miles north of Brewer. He also reports three other specimens 

 which were shot at Biddeford Pool, Me. 



Capt. H. L. Spinney, Popham Beach, Me., writes me under date 

 of February 22, 1902, that while he had handled but three speci- 

 mens himself he had learned of between thirty or forty which had 

 been taken in the State. He speaks of the late date of their arrival 

 on the coast of Sagadahoc County, as they were first observed about 

 the middle of January, and his records of the past fifteen years 

 show that they usually arrive early in November and are seldom 

 seen after the first of December. He also states that the flight 



