talking short, restless flights, 8,lighting high up in the trees 
and sitting erect and motionless when perched. This change of 
behavior interested me g:reatly. I interpret it to mee.n that she 
lias discovered that it is useless to try to lead me awa.y from her 
young by pretending that her v/ings are injured. Certainly I 
musf^ have caused her much greater anxiety than on my previous 
occasion but possibly the very fact of my near a^pproach to tlie 
young and the erection of the ceiaera nearly over them convinced 
her the.t they *were at my mercy and that nothing that she could 
do \7ould be of any a,vail. She was much more noisy, however, than 
heretofore and I v/as deeply interested in the variety of sounds 
that she uttered. 
At first she hooted the usual night strain but in 
subdued and muffled tones. Then she changed to a hoot v/liid^, if 
I am not mista.ken, was identical with that of the honking Owl 
that sometimes visits our camp at Pine Point (Lake Urabagog, Ivlaine) 
and which I have never before suspected could be a Bubo . She used 
this form of hoot dui’ing the latter half of my stay near the 
young, I noted it carefully on the spot, 8.s follows: Hoo, hpo, 
hoo - hoo - hoQ . hoo ~ hoo . hpo, given very rapidly and smoothlj’^ in 
very soft, low, cooing tones. Besides the hooting , she 
uttered a barking v/ah or waugh very like the bark of a dog 
(sometimes doubling this cry, i.e. w^Ji-v/ah) and a rather 
prolonged squealing or whining coutcry exceedingly similar to 
that of a hen Partridge Y/ith young. 
The old 0y;1s evidently spend the day in the densest 
part of these pine v/oods about 100 yards from where the young lie. 
