Bubo virginianus . 
Concord, Mass . 
1898, In the afternoon Almy and I took a long walk In the 
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Oct. 16. woods. Small birds were scarce apparently but we started 
several Partridges and a Great Horned Owl. The latter we 
found first in the Prescott woods, but we saw it afterwards 
on Davis's Hill and Benson's pine ridge. It was as shy as 
aiiy Hawk starting out of gun range and taking long flights 
although the afternoon was bright and clear. At about 7 P.M. 
either the same bird or another' visited Ball's Hill and called 
for several minutes in one of the trees on the ridge directly 
behind the cabin. It gave the short, choking cry, peculiar, 
I believe, to young Great Horned Owls. Gilbert thought this 
note very cat-like. We both wondered whether or no the bird 
was the same that we nursed here last spring and afterwards 
liberated in the Prescott woods. It must have been one of the 
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pair reared in Lawrence's woods. 
1899. 
Oct .12 
to 
Oct . 31 . 
Evidence, the remains of a Crow. 
On the 29th I found the remains of a freshly-killed Crov/ 
under a large pine on the western edge of Davis's Swamp. The 
head, wings and legs were intact and attached to the skeleton 
of the body from which practically every morsel of flesh had 
been removed. The ground close around the carcass was white 
with the chalky excrement of some bird of prey and a pellet 
of the very largest size showed beyond question that the mur- 
