C. If. Mtri'iiiin — liinl.^ iif < '(niii(<-llriil. Y;^ 



leave, :\ih1 betorc my arrival all w as (|iii(t. Tliis was a iiivstt-rv to 

 me, for I \vm\ not seen tlic Owl Hy, aii.l if lie li.id, \\\v cnnvs wniil.l 

 certainly have given the alarm an<l followed him, yet iio < h\ I \\;is in 

 sight. Having passed the tn'e some fifteen or twcnlv roil- | Ik md :i 

 noise, and turning about saw the Owl eoming out of ;i hollow m|.|.1(- 

 tree stump close by the tree. This was rather proxokin-, tm I \v.\A 

 been, just a moment before, near enough to the stum|. to li,i\c 

 touched it with my gun.""* 



About the middle of March, 1868, "lour lai-ge Arctic Owls ucic 

 shot during one week, at Nahaut, and on the beaches" about i'>.ist(Mi.t 



152. Surnia Ulula, var. HudSOnia (Gmelin) Coucs. ilawk Owf 



A rare winter visitor from the North. To Di-. F. W. Hall belongs 

 the honor of ad<ling this species to the birds of our 8tate. In Nov. 

 1869, he saw the bird in an elm tree in an open field. Not having a 

 gun with him he returned for it and secured a fine specinu-n of the 

 Hawk Owl. It was mounted by the Rev. C M. Jones, and is now in 

 the cabinet of Dr. Hall. In the vicinity of Hudson's l>ay, during the 

 winter season, the white Ptannigan (Lagopiis alht/t^) <-onstitutes its 

 chief article of diet; and it is said to follow the hunter, pouncing 

 upon his game before he has time to reach it. As early as is;i;{ the 

 Hawk Owl was recorded, by Ebenezer Emmons, M.D., as a lare 

 " autumn" visitant in Massachusetts.^ It has been shot as far South 

 as Haddington, near Philadelphia.§ 



153. Nyctale Tengmalmi, var. Richardsoni (Bonaparte) Ridgwaj. 



Richardson Owl. 

 An extremely rare accidental winter visitor from the North. Dr. 

 Wm. Wood has a fine specimen of this boreal Owl in his cabinet. It 

 was captured some twenty years ago, in mid-winter, lu-ar Kast 

 Windsor, Conn. The doctor gives the following account of the 

 manner in which he came in ])ossession of this specimen, in one of his 

 interesting articles published in the "Hartford Times," Aug. 24th, 

 1861: "Visiting a patient some three miles from my oitice, I was 



* Hartford Times, cliap. xvi, July 6, 1861. 



f History of Lynn, Mass., by Alonzo Lewis and .Tames R. Newliall, i). 47.3, 1805. 



J Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massaehnsctts. By 

 Edward Hitchcock, Amherst. p. MC. 183.S. 



§ Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey. By William V. Tiinil.iill, M.D.. i>. 

 41. 1869. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. IV. 10 Jit-y, 18V7. 



