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Some twenty-five or thirty years ago Hawk ! Owls were a- 
bundant three in succession, in October and November, They 
usually perched high, but would let one shoot atm them until they 
were killed, even letting rifle bullets go through their feathers 
repeatedly without flying. I knew one to be speared with a man- 
ure fork on a manure heap close under a barn window. 
T MahleyoRardy , — T etter of Sept. 14,1889. 
I have seen •Owls for forty years; but I have never 
seen two in the same day; nor any later in the day than four o'clok 
o'clock, p.m. I have seen them either flying or perched on dry 
trees or telegraph-poles. T K ey always refused to fly when shot 
at. Once I saw one stand during nine discharges of rifle and shot- 
gun before he was killed. Though rather high for shot, they cut 
his feathers several times; twice rifle-balls caused him to turn 
nearly over. I have known another to stand five or six shots. 
The only one I ever saw hunting was chasing doves in a thick snow- 
storm. I watched him ten minutes as he came in sight from time to 
time through the thick snow. The doves finally escaped hhimn. One 
winter a fine one was brought to me. A doctor have speared it 
out of his stable-window with a 
by the steam of the manure-pile. 
manure-fork while warming itself 
I have seem them from the 
fi rst 
of October to the last of March, but never earlier or later. 
Letter of Manly Hardy, November 7th., 1889. 
Rare Specimens at Bangor, Me. 
Hawk Owl shot Oct. 28th, 
O.&O. Vlll .^~1883.P.<? 
We received our first Hawk Owl, November 
9th, from Maine. 
O.&O, X.Dec.l88S.p. I 
Boston— Review for J an vary.— I law k C )wls , 
usually considered rare, have been quite plentiful 
from Maine to Minnesota. We have Receive 
many letters offering' them for sale. Mr. ic va- 
ry a well-known taxidermist of Lynn, Mass im- 
ported one taken near that locality. We think 
that it must have taken a circular route, as we un- 
derstand Mr. Bowler of Bangor lias established 
a -dead line across that section.^ 
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