Syrnium nobulosum 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1894. On the river banlc a few rods below the Outlet we found 
Oct. 2. where something had caught a Barred Owl. There were a good 
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many of its feathers, chiefly from the back and sides, scatter¬ 
ed about on the mud and a huge stump some twenty yards away 
was literally plastered all over with them while the ground 
beneath was also thickly strewn. Beneath the stump I found 
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all the wing and tail feathers but nowhere could I detect any 
bones, claws or fragments of the flesh of the poor bird. It 
had evidently been seized on the ground (or perhaps while fly« 
ing over it) and taken to the stump where it had been devoured 
Much of the ground between the stump and the babk was soft mud 
which bore no tracks save' those of Snipe and Muskrats. Prom t 
this both Will and I concluded that the murderer must have 
been a bird and, doubtless a Great Horned Owl. 
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