1898 
M3.y 18 
My heart sank when I discovered a sort of trail of 
down, evidently/ that of the young; Bubos, clinging to the tins 
of the low blueberry bushes and lea.ding straight away from the 
pine for a distance 6'f several yards. But after I ha.d followed 
it to its termination and was looking ahead for further clues, 
my eyes were suddenly arrested by a yellowish patch on the end 
of a fallen trunk that v/as raised four or five feet above the 
ground and to my great delight I found that it v;as one of the 
young Owls. He was crouching so very flat and he lay so still 
as I approached that I feared at first that it was dead but he 
proved to be all right and I spent the next half hour photograph¬ 
ing him, exposing ten plates in all. I did not succeed in finding 
the other young bird and I think it probable that he has been 
carried off by either a Dog or a Fox but of course he may Imve 
been hidden somewhere in the neighborhood and the trail of dovm 
may have had no real mCcaning, for the wind may have blown it 
into the tops of the bushes. The old Ov/1 kept hooting all the 
time I was near the young bird but she did not once change her 
position or shov; herself. 
V/hile in Lawrence*s woods, I looked carefully and 
persistently for the G-reat Horned Owls. The old birds could 
not be found but, to ray great delight, I at length discovered 
both the young perched side by side on the branch of a big pine 
nearly fifty feet above the ground, one standing erect, the other 
crouched lengthwise on the limb, like a big Goatsucker. It is 
little short of a miracle that both should have escaped the 
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dangers which surrounded them. One looked much larger than the 
other. Both still ret8,ined a good dea,l of down, through ?/lTlch the 
mature feathers were beginning to shov/ everywhere. 
