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nested again in the vicinity, for one was seen on May 3, in a 

 part of the woods not affected by the lumbering operations. 



At Green Ridge, in a huge elm, there is, as I stated last year, 

 a nest which has been invaded by a colony of bees. Early this 

 season, before the bees became very active, one egg was laid, and 

 was being incubated at the time of my visit on April 12. Later 

 the bees seemed to drive the owls away, for on May 3 I found 

 that the egg had been deserted and had spoiled, though a barred 

 owl was heard hooting in the woods. 



In some cedars near Richmond a barred owl was regularly to 

 be seen in March and early April of the present year, but in 

 spite of a diligent search no nest could be discovered. As ex- 

 pected, I also found one of these owls staying in a cedar grove at 

 Willow Brook. There were practically no cedars with good hori- 

 zontal branches, so this owl chose as favorite perches trees whose 

 tops had been broken and bent over to a more or less horizontal 

 position. Since the same man who runs the sawmill at Richmond 

 is also cutting out the best of the woods that remain at Willow 

 Brook, this owl, too, may soon have difficulty in rinding a breed- 

 ing place. 



Still another barred owl has a roost at Annadale, under which 

 I picked up, on March 15, a number of pellets containing the 

 bones of a crow, a rabbit, Lepus f. malhirus, and a star-nosed 

 mole, Condylura cristata, as well as the usual mouse and shrew 

 bones. Here too the nest remains to be discovered. 



In the woods near South Avenue, at Watchogue, in the night 

 of July 29, I listened to a barred owl giving what might be called 

 its song. This is best written as " who-who to-who, who-who 

 to-who-ah", and is often to be heard before the owls' eggs are 

 laid, though not while the young are in the nest. 



Lastly, in the evening of September 13, Mr. Alanson Skinner 

 and I heard still another to the left of the Princes Bay railroad 

 station. In this locality there are probably resident barred owls, 

 though I have not seen them. This would make, in all, nine places 

 where we have located barred owls, and there are probably at 



