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63. Cryptoglaux acadica acadica. Saw-whet Owi.. 

 An uncommon resident. Mr. Spaulding states that he has 



"seen or heard this owl nearly every year for the past twenty- 

 five." Some of his nesting records are, May 15, 1H87 ; May 5, 

 1888 ; May 23, 1893 ; May 10, 1895 ; May 8, 1896 ; May 7, 1897 

 (young birds); April 21, 1898; May i, 1899; May 24, 1904 

 (young); May 17, 1908 (young). 



64. Otus asio asio. Screech Owl. 



Mr. Spaulding states that he has " found the Screech Owl 

 quite rare, and never found it nesting, although one was seen 

 on May 4, 1898." He further states that his " last record was 

 of a bird that followed a dove into the cupola of a blacksmith's 

 shop in lyancaster, February 7, 1907, and came down through 

 to the floor and was killed." 



65. Bubo virginianus virginianus. Great Horned 



Owiv. 



An uncommon resident. Mr. Spaulding has found this owl 

 "nesting on three different occasions," and thinks "it should 

 be considered a regular resident." He states: " In the summer 

 of 1894 a woodchopper brought in a pair of young Great Horned 

 Owls which he said he secured from a nest about three miles 

 from town (Ivancaster). So I made a trip after the nest, April 

 II, 1895, and secured a set of two eggs. The next year the 

 nest was occupied by a Red-tailed Hawk. On April 21, 1897, 

 it contained two downy young owls. The tree then blew down, 

 and I have no other records since, although I have heard the 

 owls on different occasions." 



I have two records. One was seen on September 10, 1906, 

 perching on a stub about thirty feet high in a recently cut 

 section of the forest on the westerly side of Mt. Jefferson. It 

 remained in view for several minutes and then flew silently back 

 out of sight. This occurrence was in the late forenoon at an 

 elevation of about 2800 feet and where two years previous a vir- 

 gin forest of spruce had stood. At this time the deciduous trees 



