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Capture of the Great Gray Owl in Massachusetts. — Under 
date of Feb. 25, 1882, Mr. Robert O. Morris, of Springfield, writes me 
that “ a Great Gray Owl ( Syrnium cinereum ) was captured in Agawam 
last week, the skin of which has been preserved.” A later letter, in reply 
o a request for further information, states that the capture was made by 
Mr. E. A. Kellogg, on February 21, and that Mr. Kellogg’s attention was 
attracted to the bird by a number of Crows circling around a pine tree on 
a branch of which the Owl was sitting. Length of the specimen, 28 
inches; extent, 60 inches ; tail, 13. 
Only two specimens have been recorded as positively known to have 
been taken in this State in the last forty years, but there are several earlier 
records. — J. A. Allen, Cambridge , Mass. 
Recent Occurrence of the Flammulated Owl in Colorado. — 
Writing under date of October 25, 1882, Mr. C. E. Aiken sends me the 
following interesting note : “I have two specimens of Scops Jiammeolus to 
record from Colorado. One — a young bird in the nestling plumage — 
was taken about the middle of September in a creek bottom between 
Colorado City and Manitou. The person who brought it to me discovered 
it, about dusk, sitting on the dead twig of a plum bush under a group of 
cottonwoods, and going up to it seized, it in his hands. Ascertaining 
the exact locality, Mr. Nelson and I looked the ground over carefully next 
evening hoping to find others of the same brood, but we saw none. I re- 
gard the occurrence of this specimen as a very interesting one, for it was 
doubtless bred in the immediate vicinity. The locality is quite different 
from the one where my own capture was made, which was on a rocky hill- 
side covered with pines, and at an elevation of about 7500 or 8000 feet. 
“The second recent specimen was found dead on the ground near the San 
Louis Lakes and Mosca Pass in the Sari Louis Valley. This is precisely 
the same locality where my friend Dr. Walbridge shot one four years ago. 
The present bird was found by friends who had seen the Doctor’s specimen 
and who sent it to me for identification last week. It was in perfect 
autumnal plumage, but had been dead so long that I could only make of 
it an indifferent skin.” 
It is perhaps necessary to explain that two of the four specimens men- 
tioned above have been already announced in this Bulletin ; Mr. Aiken’s 
in Vol. IV (p. 188) by Mr. Deane, and Dr. Walbridge’s in Vol. V (pp. 121, 
122) by Mr. Ingersoll. In addition to these records there is also one by 
Mr. Ridgway* of a specimen taken at Boulder by Mrs. Maxwell. Accord- 
ingly we now have knowledge of five Colorado examples of this rare little 
Owl. — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
Capture of the Golden Eagle at Albany, N. Y. — On the 15th 
of February of the present year, I secured a fine adult male Golden Eagle, 
captured in this vicinity a short while previously by a hunter, by whom it 
was kept in captivity for some time. The Eagle, although not seriously 
* “Field and Forest,” June, 1877, p. 210. See also this Bulletin, Vol. V, p. 185. 
