806 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [1895 
19 (’83) I noted a number of nests with young still in them. 
Sets are 4 of 1, 9 of 2, 19 of 3, and 3 of 4. 
Inland, this bird is seen more or less regularly at Loch 
Raven, and one was seen as far up the Gunpowder as Cockeys- 
ville on April 17, ’94 (Fisher). Several were over the Potomac, 
at Brunswick, on September 26, ’93 (Fisher). 
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Family Strigip2—Barn Owls. 
Strix pratincola (365). American Barn Owl. 
“Not abundant north of the Carolinas” (Birds N. W., 300). 
“At Washington, where the Barn Owl is by no means rare, they 
begin nesting from the last week in April to about May 10” 
(Bendire, 327). ‘The National Museum collection contains 
two eggs of this bird taken from the Smithsonian towers, one 
in June, ’61, the other June 1, ’65” (C. W. Richmond, Auk, 
v, 20). On June 28, 90, seven half-grown young were found 
in this tower (Fisher’s Hawks and Owls, 136). “On December 
8, 98, a young bird that had but recently left its nest was 
caught, probably hatched some time in October. On February 
27, ’95, another of about the same age was picked up in a bush 
in the Smithsonian grounds. This was certainly not over two 
months old, and must have been hatched in the latter part of 
December, if not early in January ; certainly a most unusual 
time of the year for this owl to breed in this latitude” (C. E. 
Bendire, Auk, xii, 180-81). 
Occasionally one is secured anywhere in tidewater Maryland, 
and they seemed to be more numerous than usual during the 
. spring of 793. On April 6 one was shot at the Old Marine 
Hospital ; on the 20th, a male at Aberdeen, Harford County ; 
on the 22nd, another male on Patapsco Neck, and on July 27th 
a female and five downy young were taken alive near the Old 
Marine Hospital, by A. Wolle. 
