Cryptoglaux Acadica Acadica in Placer County
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February 7,1902, while collecting near Bear River, I observed a small owl, apparently asleep, sitting on a fallen log. I had watched him for several minutes when with surprising quickness he flew from the log to a brush pile eight feet distant. Fearing I might lose him, I shot just as he alighted. He proved to be a saw-whet owl, and lying near him was a mouse still struggling. Evidently Mr. Owl was sleeping with one eye open. This is the only specimen I have met with in this county.
Pigmy owls (Glaucidium g. californicum) are occasionally seen here. I shot one on March 24th just at dusk. It flew from a cypress where a member of linnets were going to roost.
Clipper Gap, Cal.
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Adams, Ernest
(1903)
"Cryptoglaux Acadica Acadica in Placer County,"
Condor: Vol. 5
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol5/iss1/26