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anywhere on the prairies, although I always met with best suc- 
cess along the ravines. On the 17th of May I took my dog (a 
pointer) and went to the same place where I got my specimens to 
look for their nest, which I found without much trouble. The 
dog was ranging a short distance in front of me when he was 
suddenly attacked by one of the owls; it was soon joined by the 
other (the male), and together they succeeded in driving him 
from the field. They would swoop from the right and left, and 
strike him on the back with their wings. Not being used to such 
treatment by any members of the feathered tribe, he beat a hasty 
Placing a steel trap on the top of a pole, but never succeeded in 
k 
flock, have taken up their residence in the outskirts of our oat 
this winter (1882-3), and as many as four have been seen together 
although they are very wary. A friend of mine while saps 
Mm the marsh last fall had just shot a snipe, when one of at 
Senus darted at the falling bird and had secured it, when the 
other barrel dropped him, and he now sits in my collection. —~#- 
: Butterfield, San Jose, Cal., Oslogist and Ornithologist. 
