Hyetalo aeadica. 
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Main© (Lake IJ m bagog ). 
1879. i; 
Juno 16. 
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While forcing riy v;-ay through a dense arbor-vitae 
sv/anp bordering Cambridge River a short distance above 
the mill, a b'autiful little adult of this sp oc i os start¬ 
ed irorn a branch v/ithin three feet of my head and after 
flying about ten paces alighted again. Ha^/ing no gun 
v/ith me I tried to approach near enough to knock him 
dovm v;ith a pole but he proved much too shy for this; 
starting again and taking another shot? flight ho settled 
on a higher branch and before I could get beneath him 
again flew and disappeared. The artornoon vms dark 
and gloomy and it was raining hard at the time. His 
motions were animated and ho apparently savr distinctly. 
His I light Y/as noiseless -ar.d esser,tially Owl-like. I 
noticed that he alighted in the abrupt way peculiar to 
birds in this family. There Y/ero many Warblers ar.d 
other small birds v/ithin a fev/ yards of him but none of 
them made any fuss or appeared to notice him in the 
least. 
1880. 
May 18. 
One calling this foronooti in txie forest bordering 
the lake-shore.^ His ixotes exactly resembled the sounds 
produced by filing a sav/: shrei-^-^h-av/ . shroi r: h-av/ shreiph 
^iro.igh-^. Alva Coolidge says~"thoy ’ are 
heard overyv/here througliout the woods in February and 
March, especially the latter month. They sing at 
night, but most frequently just before day-break. They 
are sometimes heard in the daytime during cloudy weath¬ 
er and their notes are thought to forbode rain. He 
tolls me that he has soon the Owl in the act of making 
the sounu, but tho majority of the guides an.d lumbermen 
eliovo that it is uttered by a rabbit ( Lenus americ anus.1 
vniile a fev/ refer it to the Strifled Squirrel. 
