Syrnium nebulosum. O. = October P. = Pine Point. 1896 Lake Umbagog. September 7: 8 [illegible] (Blue Jay) Sept. 7. Sometime about midnight or possibly early in the morning of the 8th) all of us (then in woods) who were sleeping in tents were suddenly aroused by an outrageous screeching & caterwauling precisely like that of two cats fighting. This outcry was followed immediately by the ordinary hooting of a Barred Owl. In fact the caterwauling ran directly into the hooting with no pause between. Mr. Sarjent attributes the caterwauling to the "Screech Owl" of this region, a bird that I have never been able to identify. My impression is that both sounds were made by the same bird but I cannot see a Barred Owl body from attacked or even heard a "Screech Owl" or hooted in triumph after scaring or killing it. I heard the whole thing distinctly. In fact the first screech brought me wide awake for the bird (or birds) was close to my tent & the night was so still that the outcry was startling enough. It was wholly unlike the remarkable longlowing & warbling sounds which Barred Owls make in Spring when two of them come together and furthermore it was also unlike anything that I have hitherto attributed to any Owl, although I heard something very like it at Mott's Rock years ago when Mr. Stickneys who was sitting with me on front of one tree pronounced it to be the scream of a Panther. Leonard Sarjent, however, said at the time that it was produced by an Owl. 1897 Sept. 8 P. 8 [illegible] 11 ' cat-like yell-voice (cf. previous) 19