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especially the Belgians, being very numerous and easily captured ; 

 and the owls seem to take very kindly to this bill of fare, as a full 

 gi-own Nyctea, when hungry, makes short work of the best portion 

 of his hareship. In fact, so surfeited do the owls get at times, 

 that I have three records of their having been run down and cap- 

 tured alive. Other Raptores have suffered a similar fate, notably 

 a fine Bald Eagle and a Golden Eagle, both captured on the island. 

 The owls seldom annoy the feathered game." 



Mr. John N. Clark of Saybrook, Conn., writes me under date of 

 March 2, 1902, that there had evidently been a large flight of 

 Snowy Owls again in New England. He states that two were 

 brought to him one day, and a third specimen was shot the same 

 day, all within a distance of ten miles on the Sound shore. 



New Jersey. 



Mr. Turner Green, taxidermist, Jersey City, N. J., under date 

 of April 3, 1902, informs me that a Snowy Owl was shot at Caven 

 Point, N. Y., on January i, 1902, after a severe storm. The 

 stomach contained a short-tailed mouse. He also states that 

 another specimen was seen about the same date at Bayonne, N. J. 

 Careful enquiry among various sportsmen did not bring out any 

 further records. 



New York, 



Miss M. R. Audubon of Salem, N. Y., in writing under date of 

 March 3, 1902, states that a Mr. Roberson had seen a number of 

 Snowy Owls across the mountains which divide Salem from Cam- 

 den Valley and Dorset. One individual was feeding on some 

 rodent, probably a muskrat, as one had been torn from one of his 

 nearby traps. 



Mr. Thos. W. Fraine, taxidermist, Rochester, N. Y., in writing 

 under date of March 24, 1902, states that while during the flight 

 of Snowy Owls which invaded the country in 1876, he received 

 over forty specimens, during the past winter only two had been 

 brought to him. The specimens which he examined in 1876, 

 and which were captured along the shore of Lake Ontario, had 

 been feeding largely on fish. 



