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I would add that three days after encountering this remarkable flight, 

 I witnessed another of the same character, only this time numbering but 

 two or three hundred individuals, taking the same southerly direction 

 over Sam's Point, but a few miles from the caves visited on the previous 

 occasion. 



If you can tell me where these countless thousands of hawks came from, 

 whither they were bound, upon what they subsist while travelling, or if 

 you can throw any other light upon the subject you will greatly oblige, 

 Yours most truly, 



Kirk Munroe. 



New Massachusetts Records for the Hawk and Great Gray Owls. — I 

 have just secured for the Thoreau Museum of Natural History, at the 

 Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts, a specimen of the Hawk Owl 

 (Surnia ulula caparoch) shot in the Lake Walden woods on the border of 

 Lincoln, Mass., in February, 1907, and one of the Great Gray Owl (Scoti- 

 aptex nebulosa) shot in the Hoar woods, in Concord, Mass., in December, 

 1906. With these I have also secured specimens of the Great-homed, 

 Snowy, Short-eared, Long-eared, Barred, Screech and Acadian Owls, all 

 taken in Concord during the past few years. These were shot by Henry 

 C. Wheeler, a trapper and woodsman of Concord. This Hawk Owl makes, 

 I believe, the fourteenth record for the State, and the Great Gray the 

 eighteenth. A careful investigation into their capture leaves no doubt 

 in my mind as to their authenticity. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Con- 

 cord, Mass. 



Chestnut-collared Longspur (Cakarius ornaius) in Maryland. — It is 

 with pleasure that I add another species to the list of Maryland birds, 

 namely, the Chestnut-collared Longspur, adult male. The specimen 

 was shot August 20, 1906, by Captain Annsley Ludlam of Ocean City, Md., 

 on the Thoroughfare farm just beyond the drawliridge across Assateague 

 Bay and west of the north end of Ocean City and in full view of it. It 

 was found on a sandy knoll \\ith but little grass and that short and scrubby. 

 Recognizing it as a bird he did not know he shot it and brought it to me. 

 I packed it in ice and sent it to the Smithsonian Institution where it now 

 is. — F. C. KiRKWOOD, Oldtown, AUeghaney Co.. Md. 



Nelson's Sparrow (Ammodramus nelsoni) on Long Island, N. Y. — It is 

 with satisfaction that Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow is herewith recorded 

 as taken within Long Island boundaries. This species was included in the 

 'List of the Birds of Long Island, New York,' which appears in the last 

 niunber of 'Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Linnsean Society of New 

 York,' with some hesitation, since search through the literature, collections 

 of birds and generously ofTered field-notes of others failed to confirm my 

 assumption that is was certainly a migrant. Dr. Bishop found it on the 



