The great horned owl, or "six-hooter" 



sound unlike the long-drawn toot of a distant 

 freight-engine. An owl on my mountain last win- 

 ter invariably omitted the first whoo. 



I have found but one record of a snowy owl in 

 western Massachusetts, though they not infre- 

 quently come down the seacoast in winter, from 

 their northern home, even as far as Long Island. 



