. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . «.r. brawn from Kattlre by JJAudubrm i i; | i. Primed SColrbv J 123 THE LITTLE OR ACADIAN OWL. H-Vltjla Acadica, Gmel. PLATE XXXIII.—Male and Female. This lively and beautiful little Owl is found in almost every portion ofthe United States. I have observed it breeding in Louisiana, Kentucky, andalong our Eastern States, as far as Maine, where, however, it becomes scarce,being, as it were, replaced by the Tengmalm Owl, which I have seen as farsouth as Bangor, in Maine. It is rare in
. The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories . «.r. brawn from Kattlre by JJAudubrm i i; | i. Primed SColrbv J 123 THE LITTLE OR ACADIAN OWL. H-Vltjla Acadica, Gmel. PLATE XXXIII.—Male and Female. This lively and beautiful little Owl is found in almost every portion ofthe United States. I have observed it breeding in Louisiana, Kentucky, andalong our Eastern States, as far as Maine, where, however, it becomes scarce,being, as it were, replaced by the Tengmalm Owl, which I have seen as farsouth as Bangor, in Maine. It is rare in the lower parts of South Carolina,where indeed my friend Bachman never observed it. The Little Owl is known in Massachusetts by the name of the Saw-whet, the sound of its love-notes bearing a great resemblance to the noiseproduced by filing the teeth of a large saw. These notes, when coming, asthey frequently do, from the interior of a deep forest, produce a very pecu-liar effect on the traveller, who, not being aware of their real nature, expects,as he advances on his route, to meet w
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