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

 No. 6, young. Essex Co. Mr. Houghton. 

 No. 8, young. Essex Co. Mr. BurchsteaU. 



The H. " Washingtonii" Aud., 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 OaroUnensis 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. 



STEIGID^. 



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

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

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

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

 clusively pertinent ; 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 8trix Americana Audubon (Orn. Biog. 

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

 praiincola of Bonaparte. 



No. 25. Essex Co. Autumn of 1859. 



Brachyotus Cassinii 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. Vlckary, 1854. 

 No. 24, ?. Essex Co. B. Grover, 1864. 

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



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