Scotiapes ? cinerea ? 1896 Lake Umbagog. Sept. 4 Just as it was getting dark this evening we received a visit from the same mysterious Owl while I stood on Pine Point on Oct. 6th, 1893. This time he was somewhere near the end of the boat can and two hundred yards or more from camp. He began his serenade by hooting to my left a little like a Goose that Fiddler, the cook, insisted that it was one of their birds; the sound however, was much louder and less musical. Its volume was so tremendous that I believe it might have been heard more than a mile away. I fear it was 'back' rather than hoots. He repeated this cry from a few times and then hooted three times. I wrote down the hooting on the spot as follows: Hoo; hoo-hoo-hoo; hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo, the tone deep and hollow yet withal pleasantly soft & coming. A muffled and weird singular peculiarity of this hooting as compared with that of the Great Horned Owls was the irregularity of the intervals and the length of time immediately following the first note, which was so great that each time I was in doubt as to whether it would be succeeded by any others. The night then grew more firm very hurriedly. After this hooting, as I have found, three times he uttered several times a loud penetrating haink not unlike that of other hooters. This was the last we heard of him. " 20 A second visit from the mysterious Owl. He came about 8 P.M. I hooted & hawled for about 10 minutes in the big hemlocks on the knoll about 50 yds. from the camp... A peculiarity of the hooting which I have noticed before but neglected to record is that the intervals between the hooting periods are extremely irregular. Sometimes he hoots three or four times in quick succession, barely pausing indeed, for breath; at others he makes pauses of nearly a minute each. At night the various forms of this hawking varied from that noted on the 4th & was as follows: Hoo; haw-haw-they-who-ho-ho, haw-haw-haw they last syllable is a low hum after a long pause.