1893, 
September 26. 
Bubo virginianus. 
Lake Umbagog. 
Mol1 1 s Rock 
At Moll's Rock, where I landed, to get some water from 
the spring, a pair of Great Horned Owls were hooting although the 
sun was still half an hour high. 
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October 6. Lake Umbagog. ^ 
* A strange Owl . Pine Point . 
At dusk an Owl which I have never heard before came close 
to the camp making a noise much like the honk of a Goose but 
hoarser and occasionally hooting. Its hoot was Jio, ho-iio-ho, ho, 
ho T ho t all the notes on the same key and equally emphasised, the 
tone most like that of the Barred Owl but softer and less deep. 
Will and Jim heard the same bird in Glaspy Cove while 
out with the jack on the night of the 3rd but none of my four men 
had ever heard it before. Its voice was loud and heavy suggest¬ 
ing a large bird. Later in the evening we heard still another 
new cry in the dense spruce woods behind camp. This was quoc- 
quoc-quoc . very loud, much like the quack of a Duck but fuller and 
rounder',. Will thought it was the note of some Owl but it was 
quite new to him as well as to all the rest of the }>arty. 
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October 7. Lake Umbagog. 
Pine Point. 
Soon after we had gone to bed the Owl which I had heard 
imperfectly and only a few times last evening began making the 
most unearthly sounds in the birch grove just west of the tents. 
The night was perfectly calm, and the bird uot 30 yards away. Its 
cries were loud enough to wake the soundest sleeper and 
