. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . of the upper parts. Thefeathers below the tail are white. The feet are feathered to the toes and theeyes are yellow, surrounded by well defined facial discs of obscure white anddrab. Young birds are plain brown above, rather darker than the adults. Thefacial discs are dusky with white or buffy edgings. The breast is like theback and the belly and feathers below the tail are yellowish buff. The birdsbreed in deserted woodpeckers holes and natural hollows in trees, and attimes in abandoned squirrels nests. From three to five
. Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America . of the upper parts. Thefeathers below the tail are white. The feet are feathered to the toes and theeyes are yellow, surrounded by well defined facial discs of obscure white anddrab. Young birds are plain brown above, rather darker than the adults. Thefacial discs are dusky with white or buffy edgings. The breast is like theback and the belly and feathers below the tail are yellowish buff. The birdsbreed in deserted woodpeckers holes and natural hollows in trees, and attimes in abandoned squirrels nests. From three to five pure white eggs arelaid. They are about an inch and a fifth long and one inch in their otherdiameter. This is a migratory species breeding from Northern New York and NewEngland northward through the British Provinces. In winter it is found asfar south as Virginia. It is a strictly nocturnal bird, rarely moving about byday, but passing that period asleep in some dark hemlock or cedar profoundly does it sleep, with its bill and face buried in the feathers of. SAW-WHET OWL. ADULT. In the Woods. 191 the back and shoulders, that In a cedar grove, near Princeton, New Jersey,in December, 1878, I caught ten of the birds aHve. This was of course un-usual, but almost every winter I meet with some of these little owls in similarlocalities. Last winter, 1896 and 1897, I saw but four. This is a more boreal bird than the Saw-whet Owl. It is very similar tothat bird in general appearance, in color and markings, and the immature Richardsons Owl. ^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ plumage closely corresponding to theNyctaia tengmaimi richard- youug of tlic Saw-whet. But the birds are so much larger, soni (Bonapj. averaging ten inches and a half in length, as not to be con-founded with their much smaller congener. The eyes are light yellow. But little is known in regard to their breeding habits but presumably theyare not unlike those of the Saw-whet. The eo;-ors are larwr but the samecolor and shape. The
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