Concord, 
1398 . 
May 1. 
Bubo virKiniarms . 
Mass . 
Following the old path we presently reached the top of 
the hill (in Lawrence's big woods) where almost interesting 
experience awaited us. As we began rambling about through the 
fine old woods I noticed, every few steps, large pellets of 
fur and bones; scattered about under the trees. I had just 
remarked to Purdie that a Great Horned Owl must have been liv- 
ing in the neighborhood and that it was probably the same bird 
Leav-ci 
which I had A several times this spring near Ball’s Hill when, 
raising my eyes, I saw what I took at first to be a dead sheep 
lying at the foot of a large pine about thirty yards off, but 
on approaching nearer we discovered that the whit ish.-look.ing 
object, very conspicuous on the russet-brown surface of the 
ground, was two young Great Horned Owls huddled close together. 
They were three-quarters grown and already we 11 -feathered al- 
though enough down still adhered to the tips of the feathers 
to give them a generally whitish appearance. One of them 
opened its pale yellow eyes wide and stared at us with dull 
curiosity out the other kept its eyes tightly closed. 7/e did 
not go near enough to disturb them seriously and we saw noth- 
ing of their parents. They had probably fallen from a nest 
about as large as a Crow's nest which we could see in a fork 
of the pine directly over our heads and about forty feet above 
the ground. By them lay the skin of a Rabbit ( L. svlvatlcus ) 
