live tala acadica . 
Great Island, Hyannis, Mass. 
1888. Hearing the Nuthatches whining in peculiar low excited 
Dec. 15. tones (in some dense woods of Pinus rigida) and incessantly 
I went in search of them and found them dancing about among 
the branches of a bushy pine. I suspected an Owl and looking 
closely soon discovered one sitting erect and still on a hori- 
zontal branch. It looked gray and ragged like a weather-beat- 
en piece of bark. I took it for a gray Scops but on shooting 
it found I had a Nyctala acadica. I gave the specimen to 
Cory. 
