SURNIA ULULA. IQJ 



[§ 544. Five. — Katke-joki, East Bothnia, June 18G1. 



Brought by the finder to Muoniovara, 14th July. He got them, about a 

 week before Midsummer, in a rotten trunk of a tree. These eggs are also very 

 small, one measuring only 1-37 inch by 1-01 inch.] 



[§ 545. Five. — Lombola-tunturi, Kyro, Kemi Lappmark, June 

 1861. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 4th August : found as above, a week after Mid- 

 summer-day.] 



[§ 546. One.—'' Sweden," 1859. From Mr. H. W. Wheel- 

 wright's Collection.] 



SURNIA ULULA (Linnseus). 

 HAWK-OWL 1. 



§ 547. Fo?(r. — Kangos-jarwi, East Bothnia, 18-22 April, 1854. 



0. W. tab. ix. fig. 5. 



Out of eight eggs brought to IMuouiovara for me, ou the 28th 

 April, by Isaak of Kaugos-jarwi. With them was a Hawk-Owl, 

 whose wing had been struck off as it made an attack on the intruder, 

 raising a lump on his head. There had been two nests of seven eggs 

 each, of which six were accidentally broken by the frost, having been 

 left in an uninhabited room, as I have just (15th May) learned at 

 Kangos-jarwi. One of the nests I visited on my way hither. It was 

 in a hole in a tree, about ten feet from the ground, without any 

 lining. In it, last year, were some kind of Duck's eggs. I saw 

 both the birds still crying near the place, and they were clearly 

 Hawk-Owls. This nest was taken on Easter Tuesday, and the 

 other also from a tree on the following Saturday. From this last, 

 the bird sent me, a male, was killed. 



§ 548. nree.—VuihsiYh, East Bothnia, 1 May, 1854. 



Out of six eggs taken by Isaak Rowtio from an old fij/Ia on 



' [.\ji interesting note on the habits of the Hawk-Owl, by Mr. Wolley, will be 

 fomad in the ' Zoologist ' for 1854 (pp. 4203, 4204). It contains no new informa- 

 tion, however, respecting its manner of breeding; so I do not reprmt it here.— Ed.] 



