260 
1866. 
Peb. 1. 
May 25, 
1868.. 
May 30. 
Oct, 10, 
1869. 
Juno 17, 
Nov, 10. 
1870. 
Apr. 24. 
June 23, 
Scops asio. 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
One alighted in a tree in the Deane garden this even¬ 
ing remaining there several minutes. It came again Feb¬ 
ruary 4, alighting on the saime branch, and remaining 
about the same time. On the 5th R,Deane watched for and 
shot it. It came at the usual time (twilight) but pass¬ 
ed the tree it had before chosen, taking instead a small 
elm. It fell wing-broken and when caught scratched 
vigorously but did not attempt to bite . 
Nest with old one sitting on five young a weok-and- 
a-half old. 
Pound a nest containing four young, in an old Golden¬ 
winged Woodpecker’s hole. The old bird (a red Ov^ ) was 
sitting on the young and allowed herself to bo taken off 
and examined without making the slightest resistence. 
The young wore about a week old and two which were smalls 
than their companions, were red, while the other two 
were gray or mottled. Two, a red and gray, which I 
nearly able to fly, (October 
1 , ibbb, they still retain their respective color). 
Shot a gray female. 
Female sitting in apple tree with four 
able to fly, the whole family “gray* Olws, 
young barely 
Caught one in a Flicker’s hole. 
A nest with four eggs in a Flicker’s hole, 
tion well advanced. Female sitting. Male in 
hole about two hundred yards off (Wa ertown). 
Incuba- 
another 
Nest in deserted hole of Colaotes auratus Fe- 
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!?th h?ir dafanded harself flarcely 
r '’’■“P®”' a^Poaed of fine straw 
and foathers not enough however to keep the eggs frcm 
Py which they were 
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A female and four young well 
an apple tree. Young perched in 
another; • male in the next tree; 
Male gray. 
able to fly sitting in 
a row touching one 
female and younf red. 
