livetal a acadica. 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1896. Charlie Tidswe11 who is with the river drivers at Moll's 
May 25. Hock called on us this evening. He says that an Acadian Owl 
has been whetting his saw near the spring among the hemlocks 
back of the rock these past three nights keeping it up all 
night at intervals. Jim and he heard one twice on Pine Point 
before the subject came up. Jim thought it was very near the 
camp. I was sitting inside and missed it, much to my chagrin. 
May 27. This evening the Saw-whet Owl at Moll's Rock began filing 
and kept it up without the slightest cessation for two or 
three minutes. We could hear him distinctly but faintly al¬ 
though the distance is nearly if not quite 11/2, miles. The 
air, of course, was perfectly still at the time. The call re¬ 
minded me of that of Glaucidium (the Trinidad species) but it 
was more metallic in quality and infinitely more prolonged - 
that is to say there were very many more repetitions of the 
note, probably over 100 for they were given at the rate of a- 
bout four every five seconds. I am now conscious of having 
heard this sound nearly every evening since we came here but 
of having mistaken it for that of the grating of the metallic 
drop rudder of ray sailing canoe. Indeed when heard at this 
distance it very closely resembles the clanking of a piece of 
tin against other metal. 
