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Capture of a Third Specimen of the Barn Owl in Massachusetts.— 
Through the kind offices of Mr. J. A. Farley I have just obtained a Barn 
Owl ( Strix fratincola) which was taken by Mr. C. T. Wood at South 
Westport, Massachusetts, Dec. 30, 1888. It is a male in fine plumage 
and was mounted by Mr. H. P. Babcock of New Bedford. Mr. Wood 
writes that he shot the bird in a bushy pasture on ‘Horse Neck’, within 
a few rods of a salt creek. The specimen is, I believe, only the third that 
is known to have been taken in Massachusetts.- — William Brewster, 
Cambridge, Mass, 
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