Asio accipitrinus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. Soon after we had taken our station (Will and I had rowed Sept.11. over to the Outlet marshes and were sitting in the boat) and not very long after sunset a Short-eared Owl appeared over the flooded marshes at a height, I should say, of at least 1000 ft. or about that at which Canada Geese ordinarily fly when mi- grating. It looked scarce larger than a Night-hawk and acted as if dazed flying very slowly, at first in a great circle, afterwards in wavy lines out over the Lake until lost to sight towards B.Brook Point. This direction (nearly south) and the height at which the bird moved led me to infer that it was starting on migration.