Concord, Mass. 
Bubo virginianus . 
1898, 
May 7, 
(No. 7). 
of skunk mingled with the more offensive odors but I failed 
to find any skunk hair or others remains. The ground was 
strewn in every direction with scraps of Kabo it skin and all 
the pellets that I dissected were composed wholly of Rabbit's 
far and bones. There were no feathers of Partridges or other 
birds. Besides the Rabbit remains (representing a dozen or 
more of the poor bunnies I should say ) I found nothing iden- 
tifiable excepting a Green Frog which had one side of its head 
torn open but which was otherwise unnut ilated. 
My heart sank when I discovered a sort of trail of down 
evidently that of the young Bubos, clinging to the tops of 
the low blueberry bushes and leading, straight away from the 
pine for a distance of several yards. But after I had fol- 
lowed it to its termination and was looking ahead for further 
clues my eyes were suddenly arrested by a yellowish patch on 
the end of a fallen trunk that was raised four or five feet 
above the ground and- to my great delight I found that it was 
one of the young Owls. He was crouching so very flat and he 
lay so still as I approached that I feared at first that he 
was dead but he proved to be all right and I spent the next 
half hour photographing him, exposing ten plates in all. I 
did not succeed in finding the other young bird and I think 
it probable that he has bden carried off by either a Dog or a 
Fox but of course he may have been hidden somewhere in the 
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