SUPPLEMENT TO BIRDS OF ESSEX COUNTY I15 



alighted in the top of a tree on one of the islands. On December 26, my son 

 Charles saw a Snowy Owl alight on the roof of an outbuilding of a farm at 

 Ipswich. 



172 [2)77^ Surnia ulula caparoch (Miill.). 

 Hawk Owl. 

 Very rare and irregular winter visitor. 



Mr. C. E. Moulton^ in March, 1900, caught one of these owls in his hand at 

 Lynn. The bird was hiding in a fallen pine tree in a swamp. 



Mr. Everett W. Ricker, of Andover, wrote me on September 12, 1914, that 

 on November 22, 1913, he saw a Hawk Owl at dusk near his chicken coops. After 

 wounding it slightly he kept it for three months, during which time it became quite 

 tame. At the end of three months it died and the body was sent to Mr. C. J. 

 Maynard. It was a female. 



173 [378] Speot3^o cunicularia hypogaea (Bonap.). 

 Burrowing Owl. 

 Accidental visitor from the West. 

 The record of 1875 remains unique. 



174 [387] Coccyzus americanus americanus (Linn.). 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



Not uncommon irregular and local summer resident. May 10 to September. 



Eggs: May 20 to June 30. 



I can now add Topsfield and Amesbury to the towns where this bird has been 

 found. In the latter town at the northern limit of the County the bird was found 

 by Damsell^ in 1884, 1901, 1903, and 1906. In 1901, on June 24, a nest and eggs 

 were found. 



' Moulton, C. E. Bull. Essex County Orn. Club, p. 38, 1919. 

 2 Allen, G. M. Auk, vol. 30, p. 25, 1913. 



