dd Proceedings of Indiana, Academy of Science. 
90. CRYPTOGLAUX ACADICA ACADICA (Gmelin). SAW-WHET OWL. (S72) 
This little owl is apparently very rare in Indiana. We haye two speci- 
mens, both adult males, obtained at Terre Haute, March 25, 1890. One of 
them was seen sitting on the edge of a cradle in the children’s room of the 
nouse of my neighbor, Judge Stimpson, on South Seventh Street. When 
the children awoke in the morning, they saw the little owl as it sat on the 
cradle and as it flew from the room through an open window and alighted on 
a tree in the yard. One of the boys struck it with a stone from a “nigger- 
killer”. 
On May 8, 1883, I found a nest of this species in a dead elm snag in Stock- 
ton’s thicket near Burlington. The snag was about 20 feet tall but had 
fallen over and lodged in the fork of a small soft maple. About half-way 
up the snag was a hole in which a flicker had her nest with three fresh 
eggs, while a little higher up in another hole I found six young Saw-whet 
Owls just about ready to leave the nest. I took four of the young owls, 
hoping to make pets of them. Later that evening, I returned to the nest, 
hoping to find the parent birds but neither they, nor the two young which 
I had left, could be found. 
About this same time Mr. Fletcher M. Noe of Indianapolis reported receiv- 
ing one from near Pyrmont, Carroll County. 
On Thanksgiving day, 1887, one was found dead in the engineer’s room 
at the University, at Bloomington, and brought to us. 
91. Orus Astro ASIO (Linnreus). SCREECH OWL. (373) 
The Screech Owl is the most common and best known owl in the state. 
It is a permanent resident and quite common in all the counties in which 
I have had opportunity to make ornithological observations. I have the fol- 
lowing definite records: May 8, 1886, a female in gray plumage obtained 
in the White River bottom near Gosport. While walking through the 
weedy woods near the river, I flushed the owl from the ground. It flew 
into a small tree, where I shot it. A short distance away another, also in 
gray plumage, was seen to fly into a hollow limb. One in gray plumage at 
Terre Haute November 2, 1886. December 30, 1887, a female in gray plum- 
age, received from Seelyville, Vigo County. March 2, 1889, one brought to 
us alive by Mr. W. J. Whitaker of Terre Haute. January 11, 1890, a female 
in red plumage found in the hollow of an oak tree on the Baur farm three 
miles north of Terre Haute. Two others also in the red plumage were cap- 
tured by James McTaggart at Terre Haute about December 12. January 
13, 1891, a female, very light gray, brought by Miss Irene Christian, from 
near Terre Haute. December 4, 1884, a female brought us by Schuyler Ray 
of Camden. A week later (December 12), another specimen in gray plum- 
age was shot by Philip Ray from a tree in Chas. E. Rice’s yard in Camden. 
February 17, 1885, a female in gray plumage was caught in D. T. Sander- 
son’s barn at Camden. January 14, 1888, a male in red plumage caught 
by me in my father’s barn near Burlington. 
In the winter of 1878 and ‘79 screech owls were unusually common in 
Carroll County; a great many specimens were collected or brought to us 
from the vicinity of Camden, Flora, and Burlington. October 19, and De- 
cember 1, 9, 14, 19, 24, 26, 29, and 31, 1878, one secured on each date; Jan- 
