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No. 5, (J, adult. Essex Co. S. Jillson. 

 No. 6, j'oiiDg. Essex Co. Mr. Houghton. 

 No. 8, youug. Essex Co. Mr. Burchstead. 



The H. " Washingtonii" Aucl., has been repeatedly at- 

 tributed to New England. {Emm., p- 1 ; Peab., p. 262 ; 

 Lins., p. 251; Putn., p. 226; but upon what authority 

 is not apparent.) "I have been told by an old hunter, 

 of an Eagle of a much larger size, killed in this region 

 [Norway, Me.], which may have been the little known 

 Washington Eagle of Mr. Audubon" {Verr., p. 7). The 

 species is omitted from recent lists. I refrain from com- 

 ments, since, like all else that has been written and said 

 of this bird, they would be merely threadbare conjectures. 



Pandion Carolinensis Bon. — Fish Hawk. Summer res- 

 ident. Not abundant. Generally distributed ; but chiefly 

 occurring over the inland Lakes and Rivers. 



No. 37, adult. Essex Co., 1861. 



No. 294, ? , adult. Salem, Essex Co. H. E. Shepard, Sept. 25, 1867. 



STRIGID^. 



Otus Wilsonianus Ijqqb. — Long-eared Owl. Abundant. 

 Resident throughout New England. Mr. Allen (p. 51) 

 urges the adoption of 8. Americana Gm. (S. N ; i, 1788, 

 p. 288) for this species. Gmelin's diagnosis is not ex- 

 clusively pertineuf ; and he says moreover that his spe- 

 cies "habitat in America australi.^' I see no reason to 

 supersede a definite and now well-established name for 

 one to which, to say the least, considerable uncertainty 

 attaches. The Strix Americana Audubon (Orn. Biog. 

 iii, 1834, p. 421) is a very difierent species ; to wit, the 

 pratincola of Bonaparte. 



No. 25. Essex Co. Autumn of 1859. 



BrOchyotus Gassini Brew. (Proc. B. S. N. H., 1866, 



p. 321.) — Short-eared Owl. Common resident ; breeding, 



and, so far as we know, wintering in all sections. Upon 



the question of the specific distinction of the American 



from the European, Mr. Cassin writes me : "It is larger 



than the European, and darker colored ; — very much like 



it, though !" 



No. 23. Essex Co. N. Vickary, 1854. 



No. 24, $ . Essex Co. B. Grover, 1854. 



No. 295, $. Salem, Essex Co. D. P. Waters, Oct. 25, 1867. 



