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to be the hawk I was looking for, and a beauty, and I have added him to 

 mj modest collection of skins. He was evidently living high on Clapper 

 Rails, as he had one in his stomach and another freshly eaten in his crop. 

 — Isaac F. Arnow, St. Marys, Ga. 



The Great Gray Owl near Boston. — On February 7 of this year I saw 

 a Great Gray Owl (Sco/iaptex tiebiilosa) in Dedham, Mass. I was 

 attracted to the spot by a great clamor of Crows and soon found my bird 

 perched on a low limb of a white pine in open mixed woods. It held in 

 its claws a dead and partly eaten crow, which when it was finally dropped 

 by the owl ifi flight, I found to lack the head and fore part of body and 

 the viscera. The owl seemed perfectly fearless of me, but showed ner- 

 vousness when the crows cawed near by, and followed with its eyes the 

 flight of the single crows that flew over its tree from time to time. I 

 drove it about from tree to tree with snowballs. It flew low and always 

 took a rather low perch, — from ten to twenty feet from the ground, and 

 usually on a large branch of a pine tree, near the trunk, though twice it 

 alighted on the very top of a red cedar. I could get as near as the height 

 of its perch permitted and was frequently within twenty feet of it during 

 the hour or two that I spent in its company. — Francis H. Allen, 

 Boston, Mass. 



The Pileated Woodpecker in Anne Arundel County, Md. — Upon read- 

 ing the note of Mr. George W. H. Soelner in ' The Auk ' for January, 

 1904, recording the Pileated Woodpecker {Ceophloeus pileatus) in the 

 District of Columbia, it put me in mind of a record I made November 25, 

 1896. 



As I was crossing a field bordering some low swampy woodland along 

 Rogue Harbor Creek, I heard the familiar note of this species, and look- 

 ing up saw one with its broad sweeping flight almost directly over my 

 head, about fifty feet up. This locality was on the line of the Annapolis, 

 Baltimore and Washington R. R., about midway between Odenton and 

 Patuxent. 



For the last twenty years, I have found this species to be fairly coinmon 

 while on shooting trips in Somerset County, Maryland, during the 

 months of November, December, and January, always counting upon 

 seeing one or two each day, but on my last trip of ten days' duration, in 

 December, 1903, I neither saw nor heard a single bird. — William H. 

 Fisher, Baltimore, Md. 



Whip-poor-will (Autrostomus vociferus), a New Bird for Colorado. — A 

 specimen of this species was found nearly dead in an orchard at Fort 

 Collins, Colorado, about September 14, 1903, by Mrs. R. J. Tenny, who 

 presented it to the Agricultural College. It was given to me for identi- 

 fication and mounting, and after its preparation was sent to Washington 

 for more positive determination, where it was pronounced to be Atitros- 



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