3. Strix flammea yar. pratincola Bonap. Barn Owl. — Mr. L. C. 
Daniels, of this city (Portland), has in his possession a specimen of this 
owl which he shot in Falmouth, June 10, 1866. It was killed while fly- 
ing across an open field. It has not, I think, been before recorded as found 
in Maine. 
Bull. N.O. C. 2, Jan. . 1877. p. X S’. 
The Barn Owl in Maine : A Retraction.-Iu the Bulletin for Jan- 
uary, 1877, p. 28, I added the Barn Owl {Aluco flammeus amencanus) 
to the catalogue of Maine birds, basing the record upon a specimen, which 
I had examined, in the possession of a taxidermist then of Portland. I 
very much regret to say that I now believe the account given me of this 
bird’s capture within our state limits to have been false. Several other 
statements in relation to ornithology have since been made me by the 
same man, of a character so improbable and with such contradictory 
details that they can only be regarded as wilfully and utterly untrue. 
Their author has recently left the city under circumstances which dispel 
any doubts which may previously have existed as to the reliability of his 
word. I cannot longer be responsible for a statement emanating from 
, Cn.-mfil 1 v withdraw the name of the Barn Owl 
such a source, and wish to 
from 
Brown, jran-uu.^ 
