264 
1870. 
Nov, 1 
1872. 
May 13 
1874. 
Sept,23. 
1875, 
Apir. 27. 
Dec, 3.1, 
Bubo virginianus, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
One in Belmont, It was quite as shy as a Hawk, 
flying the moment it caught sight of me, usually aiight- 
the thickest branches of a white pine, and flappit^ 
noisily when it started. Its flight was rather slow and 
clumsy v^ith incessant wing boats. It sailed a short 
distance, hovrever, before alighting. It was closely 
followed everywhere by an immense mob of Crows whose 
clamor it seemed to regard with indifference. I saw 
it again in the same place November 7, 
Shot an adult in Waverly woods. It was unaccounta¬ 
bly tamo, sitting in the top of a pine and allowing mo to 
get directly beneath it and kill it with a charge of 
dust shot. 
In a strip of heavy timber bordering a brook in 
Carlisle I heard a succession of loud piercing screams 
like those of a child in pain and continued for several 
minutes. Approaching I found a largo flock of Blue Jays 
dashing excitedly as out a thick v/hite pine, from which 
when I v/as still about a hundred yards distant an immense 
Owl started, the largest I think that I over -saw It 
circled around me through the woods every now and then 
striking the branches clumsily with its wings making so 
loud a noise that I could trace its course though the 
trees long after it had passed out of sight. If not 
this species I cannot imagine what it could have been. 
It looked larger than the largest Ragle, however. 
!>ordoring Shade Street, Lexington, I 
Mt Sitting in a large white pine in the woods behim 
Mt.Auburn surrounded by a noisy mob of Crows. He start- 
ed before I could getxwithin range and next ;iighLd i^ 
the top of a tall, leafless oak in the cemetary ie ar the 
immediately surrounded him many perch- 
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dignity and contempt. My companion climbed tht rZZ 
and started him when he came bade directly over me the 
® oomet! 
and sliliLT^ direct and easy with alternate flappings 
Pfiyt + ^ ^ good shot at him but my gun un- 
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