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January 27, he again wrote: "I was up 

 the canyon today where the Condors are. 

 They were both sitting in oak trees, about 

 100 yards apart, each having his wings 

 partly spread, and they kept that position 

 until I left the place. I was about 300 

 yards from tliem and watched them with 

 field glasses. I see them almost ever}^ day 

 flying around, but have not seen them 

 alight in any other place. " 



The illustration of the California Condor 

 with wings spread is from a photograph by 

 C. Barlow of a mounted specimen in the 

 possession of D. A. Cohen. The illustra- 

 tion of the baby Condor is borrowed from 

 "Hutching's California Magazine," of 1856. 

 It is probably a very faithful drawing of the 

 bird, as most of our information has here- 

 tofore dated from that period. 



GREAT HORNED OWL 



(From Photo of Wild Bird in Woods) 



OtDl Notes— 1894. 



JANUARY 6. —Shot a female Gray 

 Screech Owl that was sitting in a hole 

 in a basswood tree, about sunset. 

 January 13. — Shot a male Long-eared 

 Owl in a small grove of evergreen trees. 

 This is the first time that I have met with 

 this species in winter. The weather had 

 been very mild and sunshiny, and the snow 

 was nearly all off, except on the north side 

 of the hills, which probably accounts for 

 its appearance at this time of year. 



The Short- eared Owls are "conspicuous 

 by their absence" this winter, while last 

 winter they were common from December 

 till March. 



January 26. — Mounted a Great Horned 

 Owl that was shot near this place. Its 

 plumage was of the light-colored type. 



February 10. — Shot a Gray Screech Owl 

 in afore mentioned evergreen grove. 



March 3. — Started hunting about 10 A. m. 

 and went down into Hancock countv. The 



day was very warm and pleasant, with the 

 snow nearly all off the ground, except in 

 some shaded parts of the woods. I first 

 went by an old oak tree in which I had fre- 

 quently seen Screech Owls. A Red Screech 

 Owl was sitting in the opening, and looked 

 at me for a moment, and then dodged back 

 into the hole. All efforts to scare the owl 

 out by pounding on the tree proving un- 

 availing, I started to climb the tree. When 

 I was about half way up, the owl flew out. 

 In the hole was the headless body of a 

 White-footed Mouse {Sitoniys aniericamis). 

 A little farther on I started a Gray Screech 

 Owl out of another hollow tree. 



Near the east edge of a piece of tall 

 timber I saw a large nest of sticks in the 

 top of an oak tree about fifty feet from the 

 ground. A Great Horned Owl was on the 

 nest, and moved her head to one side when 

 I came near. A few raps on the tree caused 

 her to fly off, and I climbed up and secured 

 two fresh, pure-white eggs. When I had 

 reached the ground again, and was sitting 



