Bubo vl r ft ini -anus . 
Concord, 
1898. 
June 21 . 
(No. 10). 
Mass . 
lessly 
however, and took raw meat from his fingers thankfully enough 
but without much active resentment. At intervals of from one 
to five minutes during the night and occasionally by day, as 
well, it uttered a short, harsh, penetrating cry which was 
not unlike the no op of Chords iles and which, no doubt, is a 
variation - perhaps characteristic of very young birds - of 
the Jay-like cry that I hear every autumn at Lake limb agog. 
I suspect that by means of this cry it finally attracted the 
attention of one of its parents for early one morning a number 
of Crows began making a great outcry in the oaks over the cage 
and Gilbert who went out to. investigate the cause of the dis- 
turbance found them mobbing a large Owl which sailed off 
through the trees as he approached. 
On June 14th Gilbert, by my orders, liberated the young 
Owl in Prescott's pines which are within about five hundred 
yards of the place where it was born. It was unable to fly 
and was left sitting on the ground under the trees near the 
wood road at the foot of the hill. During the remainder of 
the week Gilbert visited and fed the bird daily. It shifted 
its position several times and finally crossed the road but 
no one of these journeys was more than a few rods in length 
and the bird was always found either on the ground or on a 
stump or log. * ^ ^ , 
