NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 489 
w pce Birds, 1864, p. 12), we attempt to show that it is not 
i to it are of occasional occurrence in the Eastern States. T. Audubonii is 
hicie 











-the reader is ec to the paper above cited (Mem. Bost. Soc. 
- Hist., Vol. I, p. seq.)- 
Respecting: ee es purple tinge” presented by the tail me of 
i. i eead and: ais Samuels’s specimens, it is a character of no 
uneomm ccurrence in all the Thrushes, as well as. in the one pete 
à Sparrow aeina a the Song and other Sparrows and birds pos- 
= sessing a rufous on especially in young birds and in those that have 
recently moulted, not being a specific channdiet at all, but generally a 
mark of fresh nue —J. A. ALLEN, Cambridg 
Tue Barn Ow, IN PENNSYLVANIA.—During the last year we have 
captured the “Barn Owl” (Strix pratincola Baird) in a high church stee- 
ple in this city (Lancaster), which is almost as rare & bird in this latitude 
as the Golden-eagle, although I am informed that it is more common i 
i I visited ee nesting seu apt obtained some 








mounted, the pin-feathers were just appearing in the wings and tail; 
Otherwise, it looks like a mass of white cotton wool, or down, with for- 
midable feet, beak, and eyes “stuck in,” after the manner of making 
sb Although I visited this “owlery” on several occasions, 
the adults “at home,” and the eggs were always exposed and quite 
vere excluded about. the 27th of pamane The pel- 
ed o; 
n reply to a note contained in the Natural History 
mg on the top of a tree, at least thirty feet from the ground, 
if other ornithologists have observed this PR 
m S 
amr, NATURALIST, VOL. II. 62 
NIPE. — In : 
g that W. A. Pope “has observed the Scolipax Wilsonit 
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