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choke cherry brush where my wife had followed it with a camera giving 

 exposures up to twenty seconds. As soon as she desisted the owl imme- 

 diately closed its eyes, although its short flights were made with swiftness 

 and vigor. 



It appeared to prefer perching at heights of three or four feet from the 

 ground, and refused to stay in the tall box-elders of which there were 

 several in the grove. A shrew-mouse on a branch near the owl had 

 obviously been killed by it. As seen at a distance of eight feet this bird's 

 appearance was as follows. 



Upper parts uniform chocolate brown, wings and tail darker; facial 

 disc black, in strong contrast to broad wliite circles above the eyes, the 

 white including the forehead. Upper breast the color of back, becoming 

 abruptly fulvous on the underparts and giving the impression that beneath 

 the bird is half brown and half buff. Primaries spotted with white. Feet 

 and legs pale buff, bill black, irides orange. Length about seven inches. 



77. Asio wilsonianus. On May 7, 1907, when walking with Mr. Dan 

 Bowman at his ranch near Knowlton, we saw a Long-eared Owl lying dead 

 upon her six eggs in a deserted crow's nest. We concluded that she died 

 from eating a poisoned bait. 



79. Megascops asio maxwellise. Four, two old, and two young which 

 could scarcely fly, were seen by Bert Bowman at liis father's saw-mill on 

 Horse Creek, Custer County, in July, 1897. He again noticed four on the 

 south fork of Sheep Creek, Custer County, in July, 1905. 



SUMMER BIRDS OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN 

 REGION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT.^ 



BY FRANCIS H. ALLEN. 



So little has been published concerning the distribution of birds 

 in Vermont that I have thought my observations conducted in the 

 breeding-season in the years 1886, 1895, and 1907 in the southern 

 part of the State might be of some interest. These observations 

 were confined to periods of about a fortnight each at a time when 

 practically all birds were settled for the season, and they thus show, 

 so far as they go, the breeding population. In 1886 I spent the 

 time from July 5 to July 19 at Londonderry, in Windham County,. 



1 Read before the Nuttall Ornithological Club, Oct. 21, 1907. 



