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four white eggs, usually In a hollow tree, but some- 

 times in an abandoned Hawk or Crow nest. 



Saw-whet Owl 



Should you see an Owl even smaller than the 

 Screech Owl and without ears you would know that 

 you have added the Saw-whet Owl to your list of 

 bird friends. Poor eyesight by day or ignorance of 

 man and his ways — perhaps both combined — make 

 him the least wary of our Owls and when found in 

 his hiding-place in some dense evergreen we may 

 sometimes touch him before he takes wing. 



The Saw-whet owes his name to his notes, which 

 are 'described as resembling the sound made by filing 

 a large-toothed saw. He nests from the northern 

 border of the United States northward and wan- 

 ders southward irregularly in winter. 



