1875. 
Nov, 8. 
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Nov, 30, 
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Asio aecipitrinus. 
Starred one in a tangle of Beach grass and bushes 
among the sandhills at the pouth of Ipswich River. It 
rose with clumsy flapping and hanging legs, i brought 
It down with a charge of dust shot; picking it up woun 
aed xt struck at me fiercely vdth its claws and erected 
t e feathers of its head in such a way that that member 
looked nearly as large as ones tvro fists. 
This specimen had its stomach fairly era-med with 
A.rvi cola rip aria . 
Mr,Joyce tolls me that while vratching for Black 
Ducks after dark, in Plymouth, a few nights since, a Shor4 
eared Owl stooped upon his live Duck decoy when he shot 
It. He has had this happen several times since. 
