Bangor, f^aine. 
During the past month six Great Gray Owls have been shot with- 
in a radius of 40 miles of this city, and have been brought here 
to be mountedjmany more may have been shot and not preserved. 
T hese birds are very rare in this vicinity, and since my interest 
in birds, I have not known( personally ) of but one or two being ta- 
ken in this state, ^his flight seems rather remarkable on many 
accounts, our winter has been very mild as a whole, although we 
have had some extremely cold days, which were, however, exceptional. 
Being eol^weather birds, and considering this very "open" winter, 
they c an hardly have been driven south by the weather. As to 
food supply — that is , of course, problematical. It was noticed, 
however, that Pine qrosbeaks arrived here in flocks of consider-, 
able numbers rather early in the fall or winter of 1889, and it is 
possible that the Owls followed the flight of small birds, tnat may 
have been driven south by lack of food. (Letter oi Harry Merrill, 
Jan. 28,1890) 
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