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12. BARRED OWL 



Strix varia 



Mr. Francis H. Allen furnishes a record 

 of a Barred Owl. The bird, he states, was 

 seen on the Tremont Street mall of the 

 Common, November 5, 1888. 



Mr. Bradford Torrey's interesting ac- 

 count of an owl on the Common in his essay 

 "On Boston Common" records the pre- 

 sence of another owl on a cloudy November 

 afternoon, probably in one of the years just 

 preceding 1883, whether a Barred Owl or 

 not is not stated. 



13. SAW- WHET OWL 



Glaux acadicus 



Mr. John H. Hardy, Jr., writes me that 

 in the fall of 1892, probably in the month 

 of November, he saw an Acadian, or Saw- 

 whet, Owl in one of the elms on Beacon 

 Street near the corner of Charles Street. 

 Mr. Hardy says : " A crowd was watching a 

 boy climb the tree to get the bird, and really 

 the fellow almost succeeded, but the owl 

 gave him a cold stare and flew away." 



