Concord, 
1898. 
June 2. 
(No. 9 ). 
i June 21 . 
Bubo viminlanus . 
Mass . 
Pat told, me yesterday that Davis (the mar he tman ) had a 
young Great Horned Owl that had been given to him alive by 
Lawrence 1 I ashed him to make further enquiries and to-day 
he brought word that Lawrence had found two young Owls in his 
other 
woods by the river. One he caught, the A escaped. Davis was 
hind enough to send me the captive bird which I shall restore 
to its native woods as soon as it can fly well. It is the 
larger of the two and loohs much as it did when I last saw it 
in the tall pine. I hope that it is true that the other young 
escaped. 
It is time to take up the history of the young Great 
Horned Owl that I had of Davis. Shortl;/ after getting him I 
saw Henry Lawrence who told me that he found the two young 
sitting side by side on the branch of a tall pine in the woods 
by the river. As he approached the larger one flew and he 
shot it breaking its wing. He did not molest the other young 
bird but he fired at and, as he thinks, wounded one of the 
parents. 
I kept this young Owl in a cage in the woods near the cab- 
in for upwards of two weeks. Like ail of its fierce race it 
was surly and -untamable threatening every one who approached 
it closely by snapping its bill and making quick thrusts with 
its formidable talons. It finally learned to tolerate Gilbert 
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