Another Large Flight of Snowy Owls. — Unusually large flights of 
Snowy Owls ( Nyctea nivea) to and beyond our latitude, used to occur 
every eight or ten years, but it was only three years ago when great num- 
bers visited Canada and the New England and Middle States. We are 
now taken quite unawares by another flight, which will possibly exceed 
in numbers that of the winter of 1902-03, as the migration has started 
somewhat earlier. I have not had opportunity as yet to canvass any 
extensive territory but I find more records for Illinois than m previous 
years. I have examined twenty-eight specimens so far (Dec. 9) received 
by two of our Chicago taxidermists, the earliest record being Oct. 31. 
Some of these specimens came from Cook and Lake Counties, 111., Iron- 
wood, Mich., and from a few localities in Wisconsin. On Nov. 17 I saw 
a specimen on the “Skokie” marsh, near Highland Park, 111. After fly- 
ing a few hundred yards, it alighted on the top of a large haycock where it 
remained for an hour. In Maine several have been taken near Bangor, 
and five were sent in to Portland Nov. 14, all taken on Richmond Island, 
off Scarborough Beach. Mr. M. Abbott Frazar of Boston, writes me 
under date of Dec. 2, that his establishment had received about twenty 
specimens, the earliest date being about Nov. 20. They came from dif- 
ferent localities on Cape Cod. Mr. H. S. Hathaway of Providence, R. I., 
reports five as taken in that State on Nov. 16 and 18. About two thirds 
of the owls which I have examined were large dark females. Some of the 
males were in fairly light plumage, but none approached the pure white 
dress in which they are sometimes found. — Rtjthven Deane, Chicago, III. 
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