1898 
December Q< 
Screech Owl 
in the 
Concord 
" lock-up 11 
L I returned to Concord on the afternoon of the 7th 
and spent the following tvro days there at the Keyes’. On 
the 8th I went to the Barrett Farm where I saw a Kinglet, a 
flock of eight Chickadees, a Downy Woodpecker, five Tree 
Sparrows, five Crows, and a Partridge. The day was sunny 
with a strong, cold North-west wind. The fields were bare 
in most places but in the woods the ground was covered to 
a depth of from four to twelve inches with heavily crusted 
snow. 
On the 9th I drove to Goose Pond to see about some 
wood that has been left there and to Anger’s Mills to order 
some slabs. The weather was clear and cold with a bitter 
north-west wind. The only birds noted were five Crows which 
were stalking about in a field on the Moore Farm, 
As I was passing the Concord jail, the sheriff came 
out with a red Screech Owl which he had found dead only a 
few minutes before in one of the cells. One of the neighbors 
told me that she had seen the bird sitting at the window of 
the cell every day for a week or more past. Craig (the sheriff) 
thought that the bird must have come down the chimney and 
entered the cell through a hole leading into the flue where 
a stove had formerly stood. He gave me the bird, which was 
somewhat emaciated and had apparently died of starvation. 
Another red Screech Owl was picked up dead on Momument Street, 
Concord, December 4th, but Charles Prescott. Will Bartlett 
