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Cryptoglauxacadica.
1890,
October 2.
Lake Umbagog.
Whistle note at night.
Pine Point.
(?)
I also heard in the woods the same double whistle that I
noted last year when spending an evening on Moll's Rock. On that
occasion Warren Noyes asserted that it was made by a Loupcervier
(Lynx canadensis) but I believe it to be the cry of some species
of Owl, perhaps Nyctala. It is low and soft in tone.
1896,
May 28.
Lake Umbagog.
"Saw-whetting" at mid-day.
Near the Moll's Rock spring in the large hemlocks I
heard the Saw-whet Owl this forenoon at a little before eleven,
the lake dead calm, the sun shining brightly at the time. He filed
his saw unceasingly for a little more than a minute, uttering reg-
ularly 4 notes every 5 seconds. I was perhaps 200 yards from shore
at the time. At this distance his voice sounded precisely as when
heard at camp last evening, but it was louder of course and per-
haps still more metallic in quality. Jim says that this Owl often
calls by day and at all hours.
June 2.
Lake Umbagog.
"Saw-whetting". Leonard's Pond.
About half an hour after sunset a Saw-whet began filing
somewhere beyond Leonard's Pond in the swampy woods along the
Megalloway. It was apparently 200 to 300 yds. off.