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Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1896. At 9 P.M. as I was writing in our open camp a Saw-whet 
June 4. began filing in the birch grove within. 50 yards or less of where 
I was sitting. The air was perfectly still and I heard him 
ta> good advantage. There was positively no ringing or other 
metallic quality to the notes at this distance. They were 
simply so many whistles very similar in quality to.those of 
Glaucidiun (the Trinidad species) but rather more guttural 
and each with a "double-tongued" fora - whur 1 d.le-whurfaU e, 
I should write them. Evidently the resemblance (slight at 
best) to saw filing is lost when one is at all near the bird. 
When it is very far away (as I have proved by direct compari¬ 
son on several evenings this seasons) its call is very simi¬ 
lar to that of Pickering's Hyla. 
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