Syr ilium nebulosura . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1397. Just as we were pushing off from the shore (at Sargent's 
May 17. farm) on our return a Barred Owl uttered a startling who- a 
another 
near at hand and answered in the distance towards B.Point. 
A 
After we had reached the house boat we heard them constantly 
for an hour or more and once two of them came together and 
indulged the extraordinary laughing, cackling and hooting med¬ 
ley so often heard along the Florida rivers but which I cannot 
recall ever hearing in the north before. I think there were 
in all at least three and perhaps four birds, two in the Sar¬ 
gent Cove and one or two on B.Point. 
Syrnium varium. 
1897, - 
May 19. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Sargent's Cove. 
Then (I found) a Barred Owl hooting almost incessantly 
for more than an hour (9-10 A.M. ) in one place, apparently only 
a few rods from the water's edge. I landed and went in search of 
him but failed to find him, as he stopped hooting as soon as he 
heard me approaching. Two Crows were greatly excited by his out¬ 
cry and my responses, flying first to him and then to me, cawing 
loudly. 
