° 1912 ] BoLLES, Notes on Whip-poor-ivills and Owls. 157 



understand their finding the place. One might have but why both? 

 They have been restless during the early evening for 6-8 weeks 

 or more. I can tell now when they fly about much, because 

 their roosts jar the wire netting when struck in alighting. Once 

 each evening they or one of them hoots or crows. Tonight (16 

 March) it was at 6.40. Last evening it was 6.55. For many 

 nights it seemed to be at about 8.15 to 9. Later they are perfectly 

 still. Puffy bathed today the second time this week. I had just 

 given them fresh water. I do not note any interest in the barrel 

 tree, although they spend much time in that corner, back of the 

 furnace. 



March 5, 1891. It is nearly a year since I wrote the above and 

 I am ashamed that I have not kept better notes of what I have 

 done with my pets. The summer was not one of much activity. 

 My family went to Chocorua April 29, and I followed them finally 

 July 4, or 6, I forget which, I overworked the last few weeks and 

 was far from feeling well all summer. I spent much time in July 

 and early August in watching Sapsuckers, and later L. and I spent 

 ten days at Mt Desert with the Eliots. I was called back to my 

 desk about September 18, and the family came home about October 

 1. I was laid up with a dislocated ankle. After my writing the 

 March notes last spring the owls did nothing marked. They 

 scattered their nest materials and forgot them. They moulted 

 freely and feathered out finely later in the summer. My notes 

 about Scops are noted elsewhere also about the three young Scops. 

 I tried Puffy on Nighthawk, Whippoorwill, Sandpiper, Woodcock, 

 Hummingbird, Kingfisher, Red-tailed Hawk, Blue-headed Vireos, 

 Barred Owls, Water-thrush, Chewinks, Flock of Blue Jays, large 

 flock of Crows, on Plovers, Loon, the Scops, Snowy Owl; with various 

 results. By way of new food I gave them earth worms in quantities, 

 fresh water mussels which they ate greedily. Snakes of various 

 kinds of which they used to be in terror and which they ate freely, 

 sometimes doubled and squirmming alive. They continued to 

 catch live perch and breem, Chipmonks and mice. Puffy caught 

 Chipmonks most successfully. Fluffy was n. g. with them. I 

 used Fluffy all summer and once or twice took out both together. 

 A tap on Fluff y's head at Heron Pond nearly killed him. The 

 skull is awfully thin. I never punish them since that. 



