646 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 
The following facts also came to hand too late to be in- 
serted in their proper connection : 
Brack VurrURE. Cathartes atratus Less. Mr. S. Jillson 
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 (C. aura), it seems to be much more 
frequently met with in New England, and has been taken as 
far north as Nova Scotia. 
Barn Owr. 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 the second specimen of 
this species thus far known to have been taken in Massachu- 
setts. 
T&NeMALM's Owr. Nyctale Tengmalmii Bon. Mr. Vick- 
ary has a specimen of this rare winter visitor tbat 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 Rich- 
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 
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 that part of the paper was written) have been added to the 
.* See American Naturalist, Vol. iii, p. 498, November, 1869. 


