Syrnium nebulousum. Lake Umbagog, Maine, Squalling like a Tom-cat. 1896. Sometime during last night those of our party who were Sept.8. sleeping in tents were suddenly and very effectually awakened by an outrageous squalling and snarling exactly like that of two tom cats fighting but at its termination the outcry ran, without the slightest separating pause, into the ordinary hoot of a Barred Owl. It was wholly unlike the laughing, conver- sational performance of this species in the mating season but, minus the terminal hooting, was identical with the caterwaul- ing which Mr, Skillings and I heard at Moll's Rock a number of years ago and which I now believe to have been made, as Luman Sargent asserted at the time, by one of these Owls.