646 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 



The following facts also came to hand too late to be in- 

 serted in their proper connection : 



BLACK VULTURE. Cathartes atratus Less. Mr. S. Jillsou 

 informs me that a specimen of this species was killed in 

 Hudson a short time since, and that several others were seen 

 there which no one cared to shoot. Mr. G. A. Boardman 

 has also recently taken it near Calais, Maine.* Though 

 rather more southern in its distribution than its near relative 

 the Turkey Buzzard (O. aura), it seems to be much more 

 frequently met with in New England, and has been taken as 

 far north as Nova Scotia. 



BARN OWL. Strix pratincola Bon. A specimen of this 

 species, Mr. Vickary informs me, was taken in Lynn six 

 years since, by Mr. James Teal, and is still in a private col- 

 lection in that town. This forms tlie second specimen of 

 this species thus far known to have been taken in Massachu- 

 setts. 



TENGMALM'S OWL. Nyctale Tengmalmii Bon. Mr. Vick- 

 ary has a specimen of this rare winter visitor that he informs 

 me was shot in Lynn, in 1863, by Mr. J. Southwick. I 

 have also seen two other specimens of this bird that have 

 been recently killed in this state. 



This is the species referred to in my Catalogue as Kich- 

 ardson's Owl (Nyctale Richardsonii Bon.), which is the 

 name of late generally given to it by American authors. It 

 does not, however, upon comparison, appear to be distinct 

 from the so-called Tengmalm's Owl of Europe, with which, 

 previous to 1838, it was by all writers considered to be 

 identical. 



From information received since the first part of this 

 paper went to press, several species whose occurrence in 

 Massachusetts was unknown to the writer at that time (two 

 of them having been for the first time captured here since 

 that part of the paper was written) have been added to the 



* See American Naturalist, Vol. Ui, p. 498, November, 1869. 



