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authority" (Selby, B. B., I., p. S^,) to have been killed in 

 Durham, is said to have been in Mr. Bullock's collection, 

 but there is no Eagle Owl entered as British-killed in his 

 sale list. 



According to the Rev. F. O. Morris, an Eagle Owl was 

 shot at Bedale in March, 1845 ; and another at Horton, 

 near Bradford, in 1824 ; and a third occurred near Harrow- 

 gate in 1832 (B. B., I., p. 184). 



Another was taken, in 1848, in Lincolnshire, but accord- 

 ing to Mr. Cordeaux was an escaped bird (Cordeaux's 

 "Birds of the Huinber," p. 12), which being the case, I do 

 not quite see why my friend has included it in his work. 



Mr. Harting {op. cit.) has not mentioned four asserted by 

 Mr. Stewart (Mag. of N. H., V. p. 579) to have visited 

 Donegal, and in truth it is so improbable as to be hardly 

 worth serious consideration. 



In the Isle of Sanday, Baikie and Heddle say one was 

 killed in 1830 (Nat. Hist, of Orkney, p. 31) ; and in Shet- 

 land Mr. Saxby has two to notice, the first on the faith of 

 a Mr. Nicholson, who saw it sitting on a stone in dignified 

 solitude in the autumn of 1863 ; and the second at Balta 

 in March, 1871, seen by himself, in which on that account, 

 knowing what an accurate and conscientious naturalist he 

 was, I should be ready to place confidence. 



To conclude, the latest occurrences which I have to 

 notice, are one at Bridgnorth in 1873 (Zoologist, 3997) ; and 

 one or two in the same year, I believe, on the Tummel in 

 Perthshire (see " Pall Mall Gazette " and " Land and Water " 

 of February 15th, 1873) which had come from the stock of 

 Mr. Fountaine, the noted breeder of these birds, and had 

 been purposely set at liberty on an estate in that county. 



Red-throated Pipit. 

 The Red-throated Pipit must be the subject of a note, 



