Concord, 
1898. 
May 2. 
(NO. 3). 
May 3. 
Bubo virKinianus . 
Mass . 
hooted in answer but soon afterwards flew off to another piece 
of woods. The moment he showed himself in the open he was 
discovered by a Crow whose excited cawing brought others of his 
hind fronjevery direction until within the next few minutes a 
dozen or more assembled and mobbed the Owl after their usual 
fashion. 
I wonder why the Crows do not mob the young Owls . They 
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must certainly be aware of their presence. The rabbit shin 
still lay by their side but it looked much smaller than it did 
yesterday and I think they have devoured part of it. 
Starting at about 9 A. Li. we (V/. Faxon and I) walked 
through the dripping, mist -enshrouded woods to Lawrence 1 s 
pines, where we found the young Bubos squatting side by side 
in the same place where we left them yesterday. The rabbit 
skin had wholly disappeared. One of the old birds, the female 
I think, began hooting almost as soon as we entered the woods 
and when we approached the young she came circling around us 
taking short flights and behaving in much the same manner as 
yesterday. Sometimes instead of walking out on a branch she 
would crash noisily into the'midst of a cluster of dead twigs 
and either stand there or fall through the twigs beating'her 
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wings feebly. Faxon agreed with me that this was a ruse to 
