Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

The book that made American bird-watching possible in the field: keys, plumages, songs and habits for every species of the East, by the man who ran ornithology at the American Museum.

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Club, vol. vii, 1882, p. 237), is a low, liquid note that resembles the sound produced by water slowly dropping from a height" (Fisher). 372. Nyctala acadica (Gmel.) SAW-WHET OWL ACADIAN OWL. Ad.-Upper parts dark cinnamon-brown, the head finely streaked, the back spotted with white; tail with three or four imperfect white bars; under parts white, heavily streaked with cinnamon-brown or dark rufous; legs and feet OWLS. feathered, buffy white, unbarred; eyes yellow. Im. - Upper parts as in the ad., but head and back with little or no white; breast like the back; belly ochraceous-buff. L., 8.00; W., 5.40; T., 2.80; B., 60.

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