Vo1 - ™^ ni ] Butler, Notes on Indiana Birds. 271 



SOME NOTES ON INDIANA BIRDS. 



BY AMOS W. BUTLER. 



Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owl. — One reported by Louis A. 

 Test, upon authority of J. Keegan, as having been taken near 

 Washington, Daviess County, Indiana, November 5, 1904. 



I saw one in Deschler's Cigar Store, Lahr House, LaFayette, 

 which was procured by Geo. M. Timberlake, from a man who 

 shot it about 15 miles south of LaFayette in the winter of 1901-'02. 

 Beasley and Parr, taxidermists, Lebanon, report that they mounted 

 this specimen in November or early December of 1901. Snowy 

 Owls have been more generally distributed over the State the pres- 

 ent winter and more individuals have been reported than ever 

 before since records have been kept. 



November 25, 1905, while at Hammond, Lake County, Mr. 

 LeGrand T. Meyer told me that two fine specimens of this bird 

 had been taken near that place a few days before. One of these 

 we saw afterwards in the possession of Mr. Schmid, who mounted 

 it and who also had the other one at the same time in his work room. 

 Mr. Meyer has kindly supplied me with the following data of these, 

 and three other birds of the same species taken in that vicinity: 



First: A man by the name of Johnson killed one on November 12, 

 1905, about a mile and a half southeast of Tolleston, Indiana, in the gravel 

 pits. 



Second: Fred Burg shot one on the lake front of Lake Michigan near 

 Indiana Harbor, on November 19, 1905, which is now in the possession of 

 Mr. Louis Freeze of Hammond. 



Third: Wm. J. Thompson killed one near Wolf Lake Ice Houses in 

 Hammond, on November 25, 1905. This one was on the top of a telegraph 

 pole when killed. 



Fourth: One was killed on Wolf Lake near Lake Michigan, in Hammond, 

 by a person unknown to me, which is now in the possession of Louis 

 Mankowski of this city, which was killed November 23, 1905. 



Fifth: At the time it was killed, there was another one with it, which 

 the hunter was unable to secure. 



The specimens Mr. Schmid had, were numbers one and four, 

 given above. 



