OG THE O. & O. SEMI-ANNUAL. 
Last Spring, 1889, I took a“Little Green” with a similar enlarge- 
ment, the parts of which seemed healthy and the surrounding 
tissues appeared normal; the bony structure being translucent, ae 
most transparent. Nothing out of common was  norode in heroes 
Now a question: In case > of the duck was the abnormal wind- 
pipe the cause of the queer actions? Is this condition fr equent? 
In case of the heron, would it have passed, ultimately, into 
a more diseased state, similar to that of the duck? Is this con- 
dition progressive ? 
LHS SN@ Wier Ore 
Nyctea Nyctea. 
BY E. B. PECK, CLIFTON SPRINGS, N. Y. 
This is one of the owls of whose habits very little is known. 
Few collectors are plucky enough to endure the hardships inci- 
dent to a thorough study of their habits in their northern breeding 
place. This bird seldom reaches 
Ontario, Co., N. Y., and alae 
never met it here, but I have not- 
ed it several times in Monroe Co., 
whose northern shore is washed 
by the waters of Lake Ontario. 
Dec. 26, 1889, while on a col- 
lecting trip up the lake beach in 
Monroe Co., I came to a point of 
land jutting out into the lake some 
little distance. Near the end of 
the point stood an elm tree. On 
one of the lower branches I saw 
an object, which, at a distance, 
looked like a bunch of white pa- 
THE SNOWY OWL, per. flapping in the wind. When 
almost within shot-gun range, I 
saw it was a Snowy Owl. I began to creep toward him, but was 
disappointed, for he spread out his white wings and sailed over 
into a lot and sat on a stone-pile. I crept after him but I could 
not get near enough for a shot. I gave it up in despair, tramped 
