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MASS. (Middlesex Co.)
Concord Mass. Notes of Scops asio
413
Coceyzus erythroptalimus migrates by night
1877.
Aug. 9
For rural evening past I have heard, after darkness had fairly set in, this peculiar notes of Coceyzus erythroptalmus. Upon previous occasions I supposed that the birds were merely flying out from their perches but too bright; at about 10 P.M. I discovered by listening attentively that these birds were flying forward and in every instance passing, as nearly as I could determine to the Southward.
They seemed to be flying low down and I heard at least four or five in the course of an hour. The only note attend was the characteristic star of alarm,
cwar-r-r-roo.
Warblers commenced migrating about the 1st of Aug. and each night risen with frequency of their chirping from the state-list skag above, windows.
Aug 14
A Bubo virginicus hooted all night low on the "Great Meadows" below the house.
" 15 Listened to a Scops asio for a long time to-night and heard two notes entirely new to me; the first,
we-on we-low we-row;
the second, a sound like the whistling of wings but louder fuller and less shrill. The bird frequently uttered the usual wailing cry and also the shorter howl,