Concord, Mass. 
1893. 
May 7. 
('To. 8), 
May 18. 
May 22. 
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neighborhood and the trail of down may have had no real mean- 
ing for the wind may have blown it into the tops of the bushes. 
The old Owl kept hooting all the time I was near the young 
bird 
out she 
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did not once change her position or show herself. 
Lawrence ' s woods ( this morning with TV. Deane ) X 
looked carefully and persistently Cor the Great Horned Owls. 
The old birds could not be found but to my great delight I at 
length discovered both the young perched side by side on the 
branch of a big pine nearly fifty feet above the ground, one 
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standing erect, the eeneealed crouched lengthwise on the 1 1131 b 
like a big Goatsucker. It is little short of a miracle that 
both should have escaped the dangers which surrounded them. 
One looked much larger than the other. Both still retained a 
good deal of down through which the mature feathers were be- 
ginning to show everywhere. 
I saw once more this forenoon the two young Great Horned 
Owls one in the same pine (but not on the same branch) as on 
the 18th, the other rather low down in the next tree. They 
still looked quite downy. The head and a strip of skin from 
the back, of a Skunk hung from a twig near by (a few feet only 
above the ground) and the whole neighborhood smelt skunky. 
