Bubo virginiunus . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1896. We saw a number of Herons (in Richardson’s Carry) and 
Aug. 28. heard the Great Homed Owls, an old one hooting near Moll's ! 
Rock and a young bird, uttering at short, regular intervals 
the peculiar husky scream, characteristic of the young of this 
species, among the stubs near Leonard's Pond. The only verbal 
rendering of this cry that suggested itself to me was cleer 
but that is not, I fear, a happy rendering. The sound is loud 
and it carries well. It varies greatly in quality. At times 
the tone is husky, almost gasping; at others clear and ring- 
ing T like a full, loud whistle and not unlike the single call 
of Pinicola only much louder. 
Sept. 10. Last night a Great Horned Owl hooted for an hour or more 
in the hemlocks near the head of the boat cove on Pine Point. 
This evening he began his serenade before sunset and was pre¬ 
sently answered by another bird in the same woods, the two 
hooting responses to each other for nearly half-an-hour. One 
bird regularly said hoo , hoo - hoo , hoo, hoo.; the other 
hoo, hoo-hoo-hoo .hoo, hoo. These are the first Great Horned 
Owls that I have heard on Pine point this season, but Will 
Sargent heard one in Glaspy Cove on the evening of the 8th. 
On the western side of the Lake I have once heard an old bird 
near Moll's Rock and repeatedly young birds near Leonard's 
Pond 
