156 ASIO CAPENSIS. 



[§ 504. i^o^r.— Elvedeii, 29 March, 1856. "Bird well seen. 



A. &E. N." 



From a nest of five^ All the eggs in these last six sections I believe to 

 have been the produce of different pairs of birds.] 



[§ 505. i^oe^r.— Wilton, Norfolk, 29 March, 1859. " Bird seen. 



E.C.N.&E.N." 



My brother Edward's note says of these eggs:— "Found by Mr. Newcome 

 on a spruce fir, about fifteen feet from the groimd. We both saw the old 

 bird on the nest ; and I got and took the eggs, five in number. One of them 

 was fresh, the others more or less incubated, — the bird probably having begun 

 to sit, when the first was laid."] 



[§ 506. i?Vw.— -Wilton, Norfolk, 29 March, 1859. " Bh-d seen. 



E.N." 



My brother states of these : — " Foimd on the same occasion as the last, but 

 in another plantation. Mr. Newcome's gamekeeper shook the tree, when the 

 old bird went ofi". I was at some little distance, and she flew close past me. 

 He then got up to the nest, which was in a spruce fir, about twenty feet from 

 the ground, and reported a young one just hatched, and five eggs. On blow- 

 ing them, I fomid they had been incubated for difli^rent periods. In two of 

 them the bu-ds had long been dead, and were quite rotten. The male bird 

 was seen, as well as the female (though I saw the latter only). He was sitting 

 on a tree within five yards of the nest- tree, and flew wildly away — which he 

 probably would not have done had he not been close to the nest.'*] 



ASIO CAPENSIS (A. Smith). 

 CAPE EARED OWL. 

 § 507. 0;?^.— Tangier. From M. Favier's Collection, 1847. 



^ [I may here perhaps be excused for mentioning that, owing to a slight mis- 

 print in a notice of the Long-eared Owl, which I contributed to the last edition of 

 Mr. Hewitson's valuable and well-known work (' Eggs Brit. Birds,' ed. 3. p. 56), my 

 meaning is obscured. The point on which my own experience leads me to differ in 

 opinion from Mr. Tuke is regarding the number of eggs generally laid by this 

 species. If the comma after the word " pair " (line 25) be converted into a semi- 

 colon, and the full stop after " edition " (line 27) changed into a comma, the sen- 

 tence will read correctly. — Ed.] 



