Asio accipitrinus . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1397. Soon after we had taken our station (Will and I had rowed 
Sept.11. over to the Outlet marshes and were sitting in the boat) and 
not very long after sunset a Short-eared Owl appeared over the 
flooded marshes at a height, I should say, of at least 1000 ft. 
or about that at which Canada Geese ordinarily fly when mi¬ 
grating. It looked scarce larger than a Night-hawk and ac£ed 
as if dazed flying very slowly, at first in a great circle, 
afterwards in wavy lines out over the Lake until lost to sight 
towards B.Brook Point. This direction (nearly south) and the 
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height at which the bird moved led me to infer that it was 
starting on migration. 
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