6i3- Winter Birds in Western Massachusetts. By W. W. Colburn. 
Ibid.) No. 6, p. 106. Capture of the Great Gray Owl ( Syrnium cinereuni) 
at Agawam. (This specimen is also recorded in Bull. N. O. C., VIII, 
p. 123, and by W. A. Stearns in Amherst Record (newspaper) of Au ff . 
1, 1883.) Stop. & Stream, YoLXX 
From Eastern Maes. M.A.Frazar. 
Along the coast of Maine great gray owls seem to have 
been more abundant than ever previously recorded. 
Only one, however, come under our notice as taken in 
this State, and that was killed on Deer Island, Boston 
Harbor, on Feb. 4. 
"lor, & 53trm, April 24, 1800. p.233 
Great Gray Owl in Worcester County, Mass. — A Great Gray Owl 
( Scotiaftex cinerea') was killed in Princeton, Feb. 28, by E. T. Whit- 
taker, a member of the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club. The day was severely 
cold, the thermoneter registering 4 0 below zero. This is the first record 
for this species in this County. — George B. Churchill, Worcester, Mass. 
Auk, 8, July ,1891, p. 3/3 
The Great Gray Owl near Boston. — On February 7 of this year I saw 
a Great Gray Owl ( Scotiaptex nebulosa ) in Dedham, Mass. I was 
attracted to the spot by a great clamor of Crows and soon found my bird 
perched on a low limb of a white pine in open mixed woods. It held in 
its claws a dead and partly eaten crow, which when it was finally dropped 
by the owl in flight, I found to lack the head and fore part of body and 
the viscera. The owl seemed perfectly fearless of me, but showed ner- 
vousness when the crows cawed near by, and followed with its eyes the 
flight of the single crows that flew over its tree from time to time. I 
drove it about from tree to tree with snowballs. It flew low and always 
took a rather low perch, —from ten to twenty feet from the ground, and 
usually on a large branch of a pine tree, near the trunk, though twice it 
alighted on the very top of a red cedar. I could get as near as the height 
of its perch permitted and was frequently within twenty feet of it during 
the hour or two that I spent in its company. — Francis H. Allen, 
Boston , Mass. Auk, XXI, Apr., 1904, p- 3. 7^' 
