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ADULT SCREECH OWL. HIDING POSE 
The remaining young I carried home with me. Fed on raw 
meat, they grew up and made interesting pets. 
There remain now the two little fellows — the Screech 
and the Saw-whet or Acadian Owls— for us as “ owlers ” to 
consider. The tremulous hooting of the Screech Owl is still 
a common sound in rural New England, and is even heard 
in towns and villages. I love to sit on my piazza of a moon¬ 
light night in autumn and be serenaded by one of the little 
fellows from a Norway spruce near by. But though they 
be ever so common, it is seldom that one is seen. Most often 
