62 THE BIRDS OF RHODE ISLAND. 
(141) 370. Scotiaptex cinereum (Gmel.). Great Gray 
Ow. Spectral Owl. — An extremely rare winter visitant. Mr. 
Newton Dexter writes that one was taken near Providence in 
1870 and brought to Mr. John Hague, Taxidermist. Mr. J. M. 
Southwick records the capture of one in February 1883 (the 
correct date being March 25, 1883) at Fox Island, near Wickford. 
Mr. G. M. Gray purchased and mounted. the bird and it is now 
in Mr. H. S. Hathaway’s collection.’ There was also one taken 
at Seekonk, Mass., just over the State line, about 1864, now in 
the Brown University collection.? 
(142) 371. Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni (Bonap.). 
RICHARDSON’Ss OWL. Sparrow Owdl.— A very rare and irregular 
winter visitant. One was taken near Providence during the win- 
ter of 1880-81, a male was taken probably in Seekonk, Mass., 
December 18, 1882,? and one at Scituate during the winter of 
1882-83, mounted by Mr. Daniel Seamans.* There is also a 
record of one brought to Mr. Hague, Taxidermist, by a young 
lady, taken in an old house in North Providence, January, 1881, 
now in Brown University collection.’ A small Owl was captured 
by a farmer in a dog kennel on a Bristol farm and was kept in 
captivity a week or so. The bird finally died. Mr. Howe vis- 
ited the farm a few days after and found the remains, the white 
beak and reddish plumage made its identification almost posi- 
tive. Mr. H. S. Hathaway writes that he has one in his collec- 
tion that was killed in the northern part of the State several 
years ago. 
1 Southwick’s List, p. 9. 
Ran. Notes, Vol. I, No. 7, p. 3. 
Allen’s, Revised List Birds Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His. Vol. I, No. 
7, P- 245. 
? Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. VIII, No. 3, p. 183. 
3 Bull. Nut. Orn. Club, Vol. VI, No. 2, p. 123 and Vol. VIII, No. 2, p. 
122: 
Allen’s Revised List Birds Mass. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. His., Vol. I, No. 7, 
Pp. 245. 
Coues and Stearns’s, New Eng. Bird Life, Part II, p. 98. 
‘Ran. Notes, Vol. II, No. 5, p. 8. 
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