Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
C.H» Morris m. 
116. Nyctale acadica ( Gmelin) Bonaparte. Saw-whzt Owl. — ToU 
erably common resident. 
Baa N. O.O. Q.Oot, 1881, p,232 
Long Island Bird Notes N . T. Lawrence 
8. Nyctale acadica. Saw-whet Owl. — Mr. Osborne killed one of 
these birds on Montauk Point, November 20, 1885. 
Auk, 2, July, 1886. p.272 
Diligent and careful inquiry has failed to reveal 
the presence of any Acadian Owls . I know of 
no Ontario County specimens, though Rathbun 
mentions it as a rare bird in central New York 
(List p. 27.)^ /g 
O.&O. X. July. 1885, p./// 
Lon* Island Bird Notes. Wm. Butcher 
17. Nyctala acadica. Saw-whet Owl. — Giraud says of 
this Owl, “With us it is quite rare.” * My notes as given below 
would indicate, on the contrary, that it is common, at least in the 
winter months. December 6, 1884, Capt. Hubbard, of the File 
Island Life Saving Station, shot one on the beach, which he sent 
to me. One was sent to me from Merrick, December 31, 1SS4. 
Mr. W. F. Hendrickson, of Long Island City, one of my most 
earnest and reliable observers, writes me regarding this species 
as follows: “November 15, 1884, saw one with a gunner who 
had killed it near Train’s Meadows, Queens Co. December 
27, my brother found one, a female, at Ravenswood, Queens Co., 
which had been frozen. November 4, a friend shot one at 
Creedmore, Queens Co., and I saw one in his shop which he 
was mounting for a customer. It was also killed on the island. 
March 30, 1885, I found the feathers of one scattered about as 
though it had been killed and eaten by a cat or Hawk. Mi. 
Franklin, of Port Washington, Queens Co., informed me that on 
February 28, 18S5, a small Owl had flown or fallen down the 
chimney flue into his library. He caught it alive and afteiwaid 
liberated it. From his description of the bird it was undoubtedly 
this species. 
Aukt S. Oct. , 1886. p. 
* Birds of Long Island, p. 23, 
Nyctala acadica. Saw-whet Owl. — W hile walking on the uppei pait 
of Manhattan Island, above High Bridge, on the Harlem River, March 13 , 
1881, I saw a fine Saw-Whet Owl which alighted on a stump among some 
red cedars and afterwards flew freely about without apparent inconvenience, 
the day being dark and cloudy. — E dgar A. Mearns, M. D., Fort duelling, 
Minn. Auk , Vll. Jan. 1890. p . ?e - ?/. 
