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 supposed might be a small owl. Uncertain as to the truth, 

 I introduced a stick into the hole and turned the bird over 

 on her side, she making no struggle but remaining perfectly 

 still as if dead. I discovered that she was sitting upon a 



single egg; on the fifth day after, I again examined 



the nest; I enlarged the hole, and took the egg, leaving the 

 owl quietly sitting on the rotten chips which formed the 

 bottom of the nest." In Dr. Warren's "Birds of Pennsylva- 

 nia", he quotes Mr. Otto Behr of Lopez, Sullivan County, as 

 follows: "The Acadian Owl is quite common here, tho not 

 often seem; The young leave the nest about the first week 

 in May. They make a noise which sounds like a dog sniffing 

 the air." Mr. Witmer Stone, in his "Birds of Eastern Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey" , mentioned a specimen in the first 

 plumage taken by Mr. W. L. Bailey near Rasselas, Elk County 

 June 30, 1994, while in June 1908, Mr. Stone took the young 

 in the juvenal plumage near Lopez. Mr. R. B. Simpson writes 

 rae that he captured a bird in the juvenal plumage near 

 Warren, Warren County, on June 19, 1911. It undoubtedly 

 breeds in most of the counties lying within the Canadian 

 Life zone. 



373. Otus asio asio (Linn.). Screech Owl. 



The well known little Screech Owl is the most 

 common of all the owls found in Pennsylvania. About 



