HYPOTHETICAL LIST 651 



Family BUBONID.E. Horned Owls, etc. 



375b. Bubo virffinianusarcticus (Swains.^. Arctic Horned 

 Owl. 



375d. Bubo virg-inianus saturatits Ridgw. Dusky Horned 

 Owl. 



The two preceding were recorded by Mr. Norton in Proceedings of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History for April 1, 1897, and admitted together 

 with an additional record of the first one by Mr. Nash in A List of Birds of 

 Maine, p. 69. As stated in the body of the present work, under Bubo virgin- 

 ianus, it is very evident from more careful recent study that all our Great 

 Horned Owls are referable to one form, tentatively treated as B. virginianus, 

 but in light of the key given in Mr. Oberholser's very exhaustive monograph 

 on this group (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 27, pp. 177-192) it seems likely that all 

 our Maine birds, including Mr. Norton's specimen of saturatus, may prove 

 referable to Mr. Oberholser's new subspecies, Asio magellanicus heterocnemis, 

 though until the name has been adopted by the A. 0. U. Committee on 

 Nomenclature and the whole subject considered by them, it is better to let 

 our Maine species stand as Bubo virginianus. 



Family PICID^. Woodpeckers. 

 Genus DRYOBATES Boie. 

 393a. Dryobates villosus leucomelas (Bodd.). Northern 

 Hairy Woodpecker. 

 Possibly to be found in winter near our northern boundary. 



Family ICTERID^. Blackbirds, Orioles, etc. 

 Genus MEGAQUISCULUS Cassin. 

 513a. Meg-aquisculus majoj- (Vieill.). Boat-tailed Grackle. 

 Recorded in Smith's List as seen at Second Lake, Washington County. 

 This species is not even a bird of New England, and it must have certainly 

 been a case of mistaking the Bronzed Grackle for it. 



Family FRINGILLID^. Finches, Sparrows, etc. 

 Genus AMADINA. 

 Amadina rubronigra. 



An example of this species, beyond doubt an escaped cage bird, is recorded 

 by Mr. Allen in the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, 5, p. 120, as 

 taken in Maine, and is mentioned here merely as a matter of interest It is 

 an African species of Finch, 



