Hyp tala acadica. 
Concord, Mass. 
1896. I left the place without disturbing ai)y of the birds and 
Oct. 27. went to the cabin for my camera. When I returned some fifteen 
(No. 2). minutes later the Squirrels were still snickering but all the 
little birds had derjarted. The Owl, however, was still 
perched on the pitch pine branch exactly as I left him. After 
exposing at him the only two plates I had I threw some pieces 
of branches at him. Whenever one of them hit very near him he 
would bend forward and examine the spot with close attention 
At length 
then resume his former attitude. Although I shook the tree 
forcibly when the Owl at once left his perch and darted off 
first sweeping down nearly to the ground then rising and fol- 
lowing a foot-path, finally alighting in a young white pine 
on a short, dead, lateral branch scarce six feet above the 
earth. I walked up to within a few feet of him when he 
straightened himself up and drew in his feathers so that his 
body looked no thicker than his head (while in the pitch pine 
he had appeared very plump and fluffy); I could have taken a 
fine picture of him in his alarmed attitude had I any more 
plates 
