G-6Dor<vl Ti otos. 
Strix pratincola in New York.-A fine female Barn Owl, now in my 
collection of mounted birds, was shot September 13, 1891, in the town o 
Pitcher, about three miles from this place.-HENRY C. Higgins, Cmcm- 
natus , New York. 
Long Island Bird Notes. Wm.Dutcher 
16. Strix pratincola. American Barn Owl.— Mr. 
GiraudJ does not include this Owl in his list of Long Island 
birds, and Mr. G. N. Lawrence§ simply says, “Barn Owl, rare. 
An instance of the breeding of this Owl on Long Island has 
recently been brought to my notice by Mr. Langdon Gibson, of 
Flushing, Queens Co., as follows: “May 30, 1883, Mr. C. D. 
Gibson caught four young Barn Owls in the steeple of the 
Congregational church in Flushing. On his reaching the staging 
where the young birds were, one of the parent birds, the only 
one present, flew out of the broken window and escaped. The 
young birds crowded up into one corner and made a peculiai 
hissing sound. The floor on which they weie was in a filthy 
condition, covered with pellets, and dead rats and mice in all 
stages of decomposition. There was also one young muskrat 
and some moles. The young Owls appeared to be of different 
ages, no two being of the same size. They were afterwards 
confined in a cage near my house, which was about a mile from 
the church. They kept up such a screaming that the old bird 
found and afterwards visited them every night at dusk. They 
were kept caged until early winter when they died, apparently 
without cause.” 
Auk, S, Oct., 1886. p. VJf* HO ■ 
+ Birds of Long Island, 1844. 
5 Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, Long, and Staten Islands, and the ad- 
jacent parts of New Jersey. Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., VIII, p. 281, April, 1866. 
Auk, XII, Oct. , 1895, P . 3 $ 3 ■ 
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Strix pratincola. — A male Barn Owl was shot just outside the city 
limits at Pine Hill on July 18, 1895. I saw it at the taxidemist’s a few 
days later. 
Auk, XVI, Jan., 1899 , p 8 S' 
Rare Birds on Eastern’ Long Island. — American Barn Owl (Strix 
pratincola). On Sept. 30, 1898, a fine specimen of this bird was sent me 
to mount from Gardiners Island. It had been caught in a steel trap, and 
was in good condition. On October 12 another specimen was sent me 
from East Marion, L. I., which had also been caught in a steel trap. 
This was a male — the former a female. The stomachs contained the 
remains of field mic t.-W', Ill's K ,/T*w ‘ 
