Bubo virgin!anus . 
Lake IJrabagog, Maine. 
1897. . Just as the sun was sinking behind the high ridge to the 
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Sept. 7. westward) a Great Horned Owl began making the peculiar, husky, 
Jay-like scream which, as far as I am aware, is heard only in 
late s\iramer and early autumn and which the guides here say is 
characteristic of the young of this species. At first the cry 
seemed to come from some distance off in the stub forest and 
was given at long intervals but presently the bird came near¬ 
er and called much more frequently. At length it appeared 
within about 10-0 yards of us and half a minute later it was 
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joined by another, either its mate or, as Will thought, anoth- 
brood 
er bird of the same fe-ird. Both birds looked unusually small 
but as far as I could make out their plumage was fully matured. 
Certainly they were strong on the wing and their "horns" ap¬ 
peared to be of the usual length. They kept moving from place 
to place by short flights, sometimes alighting on the tops of 
the dead trees but ordinarily choosing a perch on some short 
lateral prong about half-way up the tree. Sometimes one would 
follow the other closely v often alighting within a yard or two 
of it on the same tree or even the same branch. At other timeo 
they would separate and range about independently. Whenever 
this happened the calling would be kept up by both until they 
came together again. I repeatedly saw them utter this cry. -- 
The mouth was opened very wide and t he — he&d lowered each time 
