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:jh. Buteo lineatus lineatuB. Red-shouldered Hawk. Theocca- 

 ■ i • . r i : ■ l gathering of this species into large companies daring migration. 

 w:ih noticed on September 18, ihsi;, when a 'flock of about 300' passed 

 .•it \ f j * « burj 



39. Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus Bald I. ami. 

 I he notebook* contain several wintei record for this bird, whose occasional 

 appearance i always ■■> matter of interest En ] h*>o, 'one dark and two 

 white-headed birds ' wer< een March I, and a single bird May 30. In isoi 

 there are records for February 7, July 15, August 3 and 1 1, December 20. 

 [n 1003, one was seen, January ■">, a1 Hampton, N. H. These winter record 

 areoi intere I as showing the bird's occa ional presence on the cos b during 

 thett inters, while inland among the mountain and lakes of NewHamp hire 

 they are summer visitors. 



id Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa Great Gray Owl An 

 unrecorded pecimen of thi race owl wa in Mr. Dam ell'a collection, and 

 ha been acquired by the Bo ton Society of Natural Hi tor) It was -hot 

 January 8, 1894, in theGreal Swamp ai Amesbury. 



II. Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni EIichardsoi Owl. 

 Two mounted pecimen obtained in the vicinity of Amesbury :<r<: in the 

 collection; the first ■■■■■> taken February 25, 1889, the second, a male, on 

 January 5, 1903. 



42. Nyctea nyctea. Snowy Owi„ A It Iiou^Ii Koncrally considered a 

 very irregular winter visitor, it is worthy of note thai \\ i i almost yearly 

 recorded in the notebooks The years and data are given in full incase 

 they may have value in connection with 1 f » » ■ notices of flights recorded by 

 Mi Ruthven Deane. They are: issd, November 26, December 10; 

 1887, February 10; 1889, November 8; 1890, January 23, February L3 

 (Hampton River, N. II. j, November 28, December 6, 11, 20, 24; 1891, 

 December 16; 1893, November 7; 1896J November 16, o" ; 1901, Decem- 

 bei 26, two, December 28; 1902, January 3, 11, 18,25, February 3, t, April 

 3, October 18, 23; 1903, March 12; 1905, November 21. 



43. Coccyzus americanus americanus Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 

 — The Black-billed i the Cuckoo commonly repr< ented in E ex County, 

 while the Yellow-billed species more rarely reache northern Maa achusetts 

 and southern New Hampshire. This is shown well by Mr. Damsell's 

 records, in which the Latter bird is entered but five time in seventeen years. 

 In 1884, one was shol May 23, and a second on June 14. In L901anesl and 



were found on June 24. A bird wai taken Vugusi 24, litf).'', and the 

 final one noted May 17, 1906. 



41. Dryobates villosus villosus Hairy Woodpbckeb Although 

 this bird breedi poradically in I. •■-. County .• • r i « i in general is considered 



idenl pecie wherever found, a tabulation of all the entries in the 

 notebooks, covering twenty-six years, bring oul verj tronglj the fact that 

 on the coa I in the vicinity of Amesbury, a1 all evenl the Mors vYood- 

 pecker appeal very regularly during October and Novembei in mall 



