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In January of the same year an Owl, trapped by Thos. 

 Metcalf, a keeper in Handale Woods, near Loftus-in-Cleve- 

 land, is regarded by Mr. K. McLean as referable to this 

 species {Nat. 1899, p. 139). 



A third occurrence at Whitby, also commi''iicated by Mr. 

 Thos. Stephenson, was on 30th Decembe" ^880. The bird 

 was taken at Normanby, above Hawsker, by a man named 

 Ventriss, while rabbit shooting, and was flushed out of a 

 patch of broom intermixed with furze. It is now in the 

 possession of Mr. J. H. Wilson who preserved it, and who 

 forwarded it to Mr. Eagle Clarke for identification {Zool. 

 1882, p. 177). 



In Holderness an adult female was killed at Holmpton 

 on i8th October 1884, and was preserved by Mr. P. Loten 

 of Easington. This bird was recorded in the Naturalist 

 (1884, p. 112), and Zoologist (1891, p. 364). 



Mr. R. P. Harper {op. cit. 1886, p. 214), reports that 

 no fewer than three of these birds were procured near Scar- 

 borough during the three years previous. Unfortunately 

 the dates were not observed. The first came on board a 

 fishing smack at sea, and was identified by the late A. 

 Roberts. Another was caught by some boys in an old 

 quarry on Oliver's Mount and kept alive for nearly two 

 years ; it was afterwards preserved by Mr. J. Morley. And 

 the third was trapped at Ayton Moor, four miles from 

 Scarborough, by a gamekeeper some time in 1885, and is 

 in the possession of Mr. D. Young of Irton. The record of 

 Mr. J. Whitaker, however {op. cit. 1885, p. 349), of two 

 Little Owls at Scarborough, suggests the possibility of a 

 mistake in the identity of these two individuals (see Little 

 Owl, p. 304). 



The particulars of the latest occurrence were obligingly 

 supplied by Mr. R. Fortune of Harrogate, who informs me 

 that a specimen in his possession was captured on a moor 

 near Bickley, on 7th November 1901. 



[The only information obtainable relating to the supposed 

 occurrence of the Acadian Owl {Nyctala acadica, Gmelin), 



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