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Capture of the Great Gray Owl in Massachusetts. — Under 

 date of Feb. 25, 1882, Mr. Robert O. Morris, of Springfield, writes me 

 that " a Great Gray Owl {Syrnium cinereum) was captured in Agawam 

 last week, the skin of which has been preserved." A later letter, in reply 

 o a request for further information, states that the capture was made by 

 Mr. E. A. Kellogg, on February 21, and that Mr. Kellogg's attention was 

 attracted to the bii-d by a number of Crows circling around a pine tree on 

 a branch of which the Owl was sitting. Length of the specimen, 28 

 inches; extent, 60 inches ; tail, 13. 



Only two specimens have been recorded as positively known to have 

 been taken in this State in the last forty years, but there ai-e several earlier 

 records. — ^J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. 



Recent Occurrence of the Flammulated Owl in Colorado. — 

 Writing under date of October 25, 1882, Mr. C. E. Aiken sends me the 

 following interesting note : "I have two specimens of Scops Jlammeolus to 

 record from Colorado. One — a young bird in the nestling plumage — 

 was taken about the middle of September in a creek bottom between 

 Colorado City and Manitou. The person who brought it to me discovered 

 it, about dusk, sitting on the dead twig of a plum bush under a group of 

 cottonwoods, and going up to it seized it in his hands. Ascertaining 

 the exact locality, Mr. Nelson and I looked the ground over carefully next 

 evening hoping to find others of the same brood, but we saw none. I re- 

 gard the occurrence of this specimen as a very interesting one, for it was 

 doubtless bred in the immediate vicinity. The locality is quite different 

 from the one whei-e my own capture was made, which was on a rocky hill- 

 side covered with pines, and at an elevation of about 7500 or 8000 feet. 



"The second recent specimen was found dead on the ground near the San 

 Louis Lakes and Mosca Pass in the San Louis Valley. This is precisely 

 the same locality where my friend Dr. Walbridge shot one four years ago. 

 The present bird was found by friends who had seen the Doctor's specimen 

 and who sent it to me for identification last week. It was in perfect 

 autumnal plumage, but had been dead so long that I could only make of 

 it an indiff'erent skin." 



It is perhaps necessary' to explain that tv/o of the four specimens men- 

 tioned above have been already announced in this Bulletin ; Mr. Aiken's 

 in Vol. IV (p. 188) by Mr. Deane, and Dr. Walbridge's in Vol. V (pp. 121, 

 122) by Mr. Ingersoll. In addition to these records there is also one by 

 Mr. Ridgway* of a specimen taken at Boulder by Mrs. Maxwell. Accord- 

 ingly we now have knowledge of five Colorado examples of this rare little 

 Owl. — William Brewster, Cmnbrtdge, Mass. 



Capture of the Golden Eagle at Albany, N. Y. — On the 15th 

 of February of the present year, I secured a fine adult male Golden Eagle, 

 captured in this vicinity a short while previously by a hunter, by whom it 

 was kept in captivity for some time. The Eagle, although not seriously 



* "Field and Forest," June, 1877, p. 210. See also this Bulletin, Vol. V, p. 185. 



