Lake Umbagog, Maine
1893
Oct. 7
(No. 4)
hoo-hoo, hoo-hoo, hoo) with a distinct pause after the first and
a slight pause after the sixth. An eighth hoo was occasionally
added, sometimes before, sometimes after the others. Once the
bird called simply ho-ho-ho-ho-ho. It voice when hooting was
softer and less sonorous than that of the Great Horned owl, less
deep and hollow than that of the Barred Ow,. Indeed, it was
rather a coo than a hoot and possessed a gentle dove-like qual-
ity in strange contrast with the truly fiendish character of the
yells which immediately preceded and followed it. It probably
could not be heard at anything like he distances to which the
hooting of the Barred and Horned Owls carries under favorable
conditions.
  The whistle is the same as that which we heard near this
camp on the evenings of Sept. 26 and Oct. 5 and which we have
hitherto attributed to a Saw-whet. It is possible of course
that the whistle was made to-night by another bird but if so he
and the hooter must have kept close company for when the latter
was behind the tent I heard both sounds in quick succession from
apparently the same spot and later when the hooter had moved to
the pines on the point near the lading the whistle came again
thrice from that direction and on each occasion the yells ceased
while the whistle was being given.
  If I am not mistaken - and my men have the same impression -