Its Song Is Like The Filing Of A Saw

Of the Acadian crvvl, one of the rarest of Isew England birds, Audubon says: "This little owl is known in Massachusetts by the narne of the 'saw whet,' the sound of its love notes bearing a great resemblance to the noise produced by filiug the teeth of a large saw. These notes, when coming, as they frequently do, f rom the interior of a deep forest, produce a very peculiar effect on the traveler. who, not being aware of their real nature, expects as he advances on his route to meet with shelter under a sawirrill at no great distance. Until I shot the bird in the act I had myself been more than once deceived in this manner."'