Svrn ium nebulcsura . 
Lake Umi 
1896. 
Sept.8. 
agog, Maine, Squalling like a Tom-cat. 
Sometime during last night those of our party who were 
sleeping in tents were suddenly and very effectually awakened 
by an outrageous squalling and snarling exactly like that ox 
two tom cats fighting but at its termination the outcry ran, 
without the slightest separating pause, into the ordinary hoot 
of a Barred Owl. It was wholly unlike the laughing, conver¬ 
sational performance of this species in the mating season but, 
minus the terminal hooting, was identical with the caterwaul¬ 
ing which I.Ir,Shillings and I heard at Moll's Rock a,number of 
years ago and which I now believe to have been made, as Luman 
Sargent asserted at the time, by one of these Owls. 
