Massachusetts. 
Mr. M. Abbott Frazar of Boston, Mass., in writing under date 
•of February 19, 1902, advises me that the flight of Snowy Owls 
was very much later than in former years, and that while he had 
not kept any records this season, the proportion of birds was not 
as great as in the recorded migrations of 1876 and 1892. 
Mr. Owen Durfee of Fall River, Mass., writes under date of 
February 18, 1902, that the Snowy Owls were not nearly as 
abundant as in the winter of 1890-91 ; the capture of about a 
dozen birds, at various localities on the Rhode Island coast, had 
•come to his notice, and that he had records of three which were 
taken on the south shore of Martha’s Vineyard. Contrary to the 
■observations of Maine ornithologists, Mr. Durfee states that this 
season all records have been made on the coast, while in 1890 they 
worked up the Seaconnet River and tributaries of Mount Hope 
Bay to a much larger extent. One large, heavily barred specimen, 
shot at Little Compton, R. I., on February 14, was reported by 
the local taxidermist to be very fat and the stomach full of rats. 
Mr. John E. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., in writing me under 
date of February 17, 1902, says: “I have not heard of any 
unusual migration of the Snowy Owl in Worcester County. I think 
in Maine there has been a great many this season, and I am 
receiving frequent letters offering live specimens, especially from 
Wells Beach, Me. They were reported to have been caught in 
•traps.” 
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Auk, XIX, July, 1902, 
Nyctea nyctea. One was seen March 5, 1904, 'at Squantum, Mass. 
