. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SOUTH AiihiULAS mints. 239 Owt t it rbe our He of jrtk ;inK north ioto British America; iiouihwarU in wooded, mountainous regions, into Mexi- co. Its shrill, harsh notes, resembling the filing of a saw, have occasioned its name. The Lird has been found breeding in Massachusetts, Maine, New Yorl<, etc., nesting In holes of trees, artificial nests, and in the old nests of herons. Mr. William Brewster records a set of four eggs taken April 5, near Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, by Mr. W. Perham; they we
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. SOUTH AiihiULAS mints. 239 Owt t it rbe our He of jrtk ;inK north ioto British America; iiouihwarU in wooded, mountainous regions, into Mexi- co. Its shrill, harsh notes, resembling the filing of a saw, have occasioned its name. The Lird has been found breeding in Massachusetts, Maine, New Yorl<, etc., nesting In holes of trees, artificial nests, and in the old nests of herons. Mr. William Brewster records a set of four eggs taken April 5, near Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, by Mr. W. Perham; they were deposited in artificial rests made from sections of hollow trunks, nailed to trees in woo'ls. The sizes of four eggs are given as fol- lows: ,, , Other eggs were taken from similar nests by Mr. Perham. Near Utica, New York, Mr. Egbert Bagg, on the dates of April 7, 21 and 30, 1886, found four sets of eggs of this species; two sets of five and two of seven eggs each. They were taken from deserted woodpeckers' excavations in tree stubs, ranging from twenty-two to fifty feet from the ground. The eggs were laid on the rotten chips in the cavities, and a few feathers of the Owl were present. The eggs are white, nearly elliptical; the average size is The number ranges from four to seven. On May 28, 1889, my friend, J. E. Gould, shot two young birds of this species in a woods near Worthington, Ohio,—about five miles north of Co- lumbus. These had Just left the nest. About a mile and \ half distant, in an en- tirely different strip of woods, another specimen was observed the same day. On June 2, returning to 'the place where he had taken tho two young, three more were observed, sitting in the branches of the same sapling from which the two were shot on May 28. One of these was secured with a stick, the other 2 were allowed to remain. These were doubtless a brood of five, and the one observed in another woods mak- ing six in all. There i
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