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Winter Birds. Owls were unusually, 
abundant last winter, and I mounted three; 
Screech Ow^ s, (two red and one gray), 
&.+ CP- vm. freS. /Vys. 
A Fishing Screech Owl.— I secured a Screech Owl Feb. 2, 1889, which 
was caught in a steel trap, the latter having been set in a spring, where 
there were a number of small fish. When found it was dead, having been 
drowned, and its legs were more or less covered with fish scales. The trap 
was at least four or five inches below the surface of the water, which 
seems to show that the Owl must have plunged into the water in order to 
have got caught. This is the only instance in which I have known this 
species to enter the water for the purpose of securing fish.* — Willard 
E. Treat, East Hartford , Connecticut. 
[♦For a similar case see Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, Vol II, p. 80 .— Ed.] 
At*, VI. April, 1889. P . tW'/C/O . 
Engineer Daniels, on his trip from New 
\oik to Boston, while passing through 
Pomfret, Conn., had a Red Screech Owl 
fly in between the engine and tender. The 
bird lived only a short time. 
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