The Hawk Owl in Massachusetts. —I found lately in the Bryant Col- 
lection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology two specimens of . Surma 
ulula caparoch. The label on one reads “Massachusetts, December 30, 
<3\” (No. 1524); on the other, “Massachusetts, <J,” (No. 1525). As no 
Massachusetts specimen has been recorded as taken on December 30, this 
bird is evidently unrecorded, and makes the thirteenth recordfor the State. 
The other specimen may be one of those already recorded of which we 
have no other data as to the capture. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., 
Longwood , Mass. Auk, XIX, Jan., 1902, p. Qo. 
New Massachusetts Records for the Hawk and Great Gray Owls. — I 
have just secured for the Thoreau Museum of Natural History, at the 
Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts, a specimen of the Hawk Owl 
( Surnia ulula caparoch) shot in the Lake Walden woods on the border of 
Lincoln, Mass., in February, 1907, and one of the Great Gray Owl ( Scoti - 
aptex nebulosa) shot in the Hoar woods, in Concord, Mass., in December, 
1906. With these I have also secured specimens of the Great-horned, 
Snowy, Short-eared, Long-eared, Barred, Screech and Acadian Owls, all 
taken in Concord during the past few years. These were shot by Henry 
C. Wheeler, a trapper and woodsman of Concord. This Hawk Owl makes, 
I believe, the fourteenth record for the State, and the Great Gray the 
eighteenth. A careful investigation into their capture leaves no doubt 
in my mind as to their authenticity. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Con- 
cord, Mass. 
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