263 
1H76. 
Scops asio, 
Middlesex County, Mass. 
(Apr.22. 
1877. 
Aug. 16. 
Just after sunset savr one sitting on a horizontal 
a + I threw several stones 
at It arid when one passed very near it would dive do’ra 
nearly to the ground and sweeping upward gracefully 
abruptly shutt-ng his. its iings 
It fin branch in the manner of a Buteo. 
It finally took refuge in a hollow trunk peeping out at 
t^hat I could hLd?y LTrlln 
woe I began to climb the tree it 
+°+ again. i afterwards heard that Prazar found a 
es o-day in the adjoining orchard, with the female 
sitting on two eggs; this was probably the male parent. 
Ind'e^as ?he had taken both birds 
and eggs. The hole was a natural opening whore a 
ixmb had rotted out, afterwards excavL“d by a Pii^r 
which raised a brood of young there in 1B74 ii . 
ohL-*’ -‘--“'’hO^d'twelyfi:!"^ 
Le^hfied b!?nrth:“ ^rRob' ^ 
beneath. 
roiT^LH- "r^os\nunn::t ^ 
day was grav as tvnc 4 .v fitting the other 
J v/ao gray, as was also the male which T cjaw 
evening of the 22d. ™cn i saw on the 
One to-night uttered two notes new to me; the firsi 
m-ow, W 2 .-OW; the second a sound like the whist- 
ixng of wings but less shrill as well as louder and full¬ 
er. This bird also gave'the wailing cry frequently 
as well as-the kjou , k rou. (Concord). ’ 
