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New Hampshire. 



Dr. Charles W. Townsend, Boston, Mass., under date of Feb. 

 15, 1906, informs me that three Snowy Owls were killed at Hamp- 

 ton, Nov. 24, 1905. 



Vermont. 



Mr. W. P. Conger, taxidermist, Burlington, Vt., writing under 

 date of Jan. 23, 1906, gives me the following data regarding Snowy 

 Owls which he has received this season, all killed in Vermont: 

 South Hero, Nov. 20, 1905, one; North Hero, Nov. 24, 1905. 

 one; Colchester, Nov. 28, and Dec. 22, 1905, two; Orwell, Jan. 

 23, 1906, one; Shelburne, Dec. 18, 1905, one; Burlington, Dec. 

 22, 1905, one; Albany, Dec. 27, 1905, one. 



The mean temperature at Burlington, Vt., for Nov., 1905, was 

 36.05°. 



Massachusetts. 



Mr. M. Abbott Frazar, Boston, Mass., writing under date of Dec. 

 2, 1905, informs me that he has received for mounting about forty 

 Snowy Owls. The birds were received between Nov. 23, 1905, 

 and Jan. 1, 1906. While a few were sent from Grand Manan, 

 the majority came from points along the sea coast from Newbury- 

 port to Nantucket. 



Dr. Chas. W. Townsend, Boston, Mass., under date of Feb. 15, 

 1906, gives me the following records: 



Two seen by himself in the Ipswich dunes, on Nov. 5, 1905, and 

 Feb. 11, 1906; five shot in the Ipswich dunes, Nov. 25, 1905; one 

 seen near Salem, Jan. 1, 1906. At different dates during Novem- 

 ber and December, 1905, and January, 1906, a gunner from New- 

 buryport shot nineteen specimens, most of them being taken on 

 Plum Island, off Ipswich. Three were shot at Nantucket, Mass., 

 Dec. 1, 1906, and one at Wayland, Mass., Dec. 2, 1905. 



Mr. Everett Gordon, taxidermist, Lynn, Mass., on Dec. 13, 

 1905, reported one from Nahant, Mass., taken Nov. 22, 1905; one 

 from Chatham, Mass., taken Nov. 13, 1905; and one from Glouces- 

 ter, Mass., taken Nov. 23, 1905. 



