Euid its notes given so rapidly that the coMinas which I have 
just used to separate them should perhaps have been omitted. 
Indeed the notes followed one another in nearly if not quite 
as quick succession as do those of the Barred Owl, Usually 
this bird hooted in response to its mate, but on two occasions 
it uttered the full series of notes just described, twice in 
rapid succession. 
On one of these occasions the first set of notes 
was begun before its mate had quite finished and in so high 
and querulous a key as to strongly suggest that it had sud¬ 
denly lost its temper at something that the other wa.s saying 
and had given vent to instant and angry contradiction or 
expostulation. If I am not greatly mistaken, this bird's 
hooting was similar in respect to the number of notes and not 
dissimilar in quality of tone to the hooting of the honking 
OviTl at Lake Umbagog. Indeed I begin to suspect strongly 
th8.t the latter was, after all, nothing but a Bubo , but thus 
far I have not heard this Concord bird honk . 
Both of these Owls are, no doubt, the birds which 
inhabit and breed in Lawrence's woods, I am surprised at the 
limited area which they range over. Apparently it dows not 
much exceed tv70 hundred acres. At least I have never heard 
(or seen) either of them to the eastward of the river, to 
the southward of Ball's Hill or to the westward of our farm¬ 
house. To the northward of their stronghold there are few 
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extensive vroods and^do not think they wander far in that 
direction. Certainly most of their time is spent, both by 
night and day, in Lawrence's woods and Prescott's Pines, a 
