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Concord, Mass.
1916
Aug. 30
 to
Nov. 4

Barred Owl.

  Within that autumnal season to which the
present record especially relates no Owl other than the Megascops
was noted by me at Concord but during a fleeting visit 
to our Farm on December 6 [December 6, 1916] I ran across a Barred Owl.
It happened unexpectedly - as such experiences almost always
do - and early in the afternoon, when George Baker and I were
returning from Birch Field. We had stopped
to look at a tree marked for cutting and were talking about
it rather loudly when the bird started from the
upper branches of a tall pitch pine, standing some twenty
yards away, and flew off through the tree tops, with
incessant, leisurely, moth-like wing beats. His
feet and legs hung down and showed conspicuously,
(almost if not quite for the entire length of the tarsi)
when he first took flight but were drawn up out