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Ohio. 



Mr. W. W. \Yoodruff, taxidermist, Cleveland, O., informs me 

 that these owls appeared earlier this season than in previous years. 

 He had received four specimens, two of each sex, between Nov. 20 

 and 25, 1905. 



Mr. E. L. Mosely, Sandusky, O., writes under date of Feb. 3, 

 1906, giving the following records which had come to his notice: 

 one from Marblehead, O. ; one from Port Clinton, O.; and one 

 from Put-in Bay, O., all taken within twenty miles of Sandusky, 

 between Nov. 21 and 27, 1905. 



Prof. Lynds Jones, Oberlin, O., writing under date of Feb. 10, 

 1906, reports the following records. Five taken in Ashtabula Co., 

 one in Lake Co., six in Mahoning Co., and six received by a taxi- 

 dermist in Columbus, from localities south of that city, no data for 

 these records being given. The mean temperature for Ohio for 

 November, 1905, was 39.06°. 



Michigan. 



Mr. Peter Lepp, taxidermist, Saginaw, Mich., writes me that he 

 received fifteen Snowy Owls between Nov. 20 and Dec. 28, 1905. 

 Referring to the last large migration in 1901-2, he stated that he 

 had sixty-two specimens in his show window at one time. 



Mr. Fred. Kaempfer, taxidermist, Chicago, 111., received two 

 specimens from Ironwood, Mich., Oct. 31, 1905. 



Mr. Hugo Englehardt, taxidermist, Iron River, Mich., received 

 five specimens, all from Iron Co., Mich., during the late fall of 1905, 

 and Mr. W. H. Kress, of Cheboygan, Mich., received three. 



Mr. Lou J. Eppinger, taxidermist, Detroit, Mich., under date 

 of Feb. 5, 1906, writes that he had received some ten specimens 

 from the vicinity of Detroit, two from the Upper Peninsula, Mich., 

 and several from Iowa and the Dakotas. He stated that around 

 Detroit this flight did not compare as to numbers with the one a few 

 years previous. 



M. P. "A. Taverner of Detroit, Mich., under date of April 18, 

 1906, reports late records of three Snowy Owls, as follows: One 



