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without license and bagging small 

 birds, but in Mystic Lyme, and other 

 towns have been trying to kill the 

 game war dens sent in the woods to 

 arrest them. 



C. L. RAWSON. 



The Great Grey Owl in Eastern New 

 York. 



The Great Grey Owl, Scotiaptex 

 cinerea, is a rare and somewhat 

 irregular visitor in Eastern New 

 York. E. H. Short does not include 

 the species in his "Birds of Western 

 New York," nor does* R. Hoffman 

 make mention of it in "Birds of New 

 England and Eastern New York." 

 There are two specimens on exhibi- 

 tion in the State Museum at Albany. 



I have two records of the occur- 

 rence of this bird in Fulton county, 

 New York. The first specimen was 

 probably brought into the county by 

 the heavy winds and severe snow-fall 

 of Nov. 11, 1906. The bird was found 

 dead along the car track near Broad- 

 albin, on Nov. 15, '06, and was sup- 

 posed to have been killed by contact 

 with the train. I examined the bird 

 the next day and made the following 

 observations: 



"L. 29.25 in.; extent, 59 in.; tail, 

 12.65 in.; bill, upper mandible, bright 

 soap-yellow, except along tomia where 

 it is ashy-white; lower mandible, 

 greyish. Facial disc, light grey, with 

 concentric, rather indistinct marks of 

 blackish j brown, or blacK; a large 

 dark mark at lower edge of disc on 

 each side of bill. Under parts white 

 heavily striped and streaked with 

 dark blackish^brown; upper part of 

 breast unmarked, whitish; above, 

 brown, mottled with white." Sex, 

 male; stomach empty. 



A second specimen was brought in- 

 to Hotaling's Taxidermist office on 

 Dec. 16, 1906. This specimen was 

 oi*>' ' j en secured in the 



northern part of Fulton county, (pos- 

 sibly over the line in Hamilton coun- 

 ty), and is a female bird, slightly 

 larger than the other with shorter 

 alar extent (30.12 in. and 56 in.) re- 

 spectively. 



C. P. ALEXANDER. 



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In Review. 



"American Birds," by Wm. L. Fin- 

 ley. Studies' from life with the aid 

 of the camera. 247 pages, 127 half- 

 tones from photos, cloth. Chas. Scrib- 

 ners' Sons. 



This work seems typographically 

 perfect and the contents are interest- 

 ing from cover to cover. Mr. Finley 

 mentions his indebtedness to Mr. 

 Bohlman in the introduction and 

 from the copyright marks on many 

 plates, we judge that this was quite 

 considerable. 



Mr. Finley states in his introduc- 

 tion that "to the ordinary bird lover 

 a robin, flicker, chickadee, etc. is the 

 same," irrespective of whether east- 

 ern or western species. While almost 

 all the contents of the book treat of 

 western (Pacific coast) observations, 

 he writes for the whole country on 

 the above assumption. 



Assuming this statement to 

 be true, it is apparently another case 

 where "the ordinary bird lover" has 

 something to learn. 



