OWLS 331 



cording to A. G. More {Ibis, 1865, p. 16), it is 

 reported to have nested in Orkney, Shetland, and 

 the Hebrides. As to this, however, see the re- 

 marks of Messrs. Buckley and Harvie- Brown, 

 "Fauna of Orkney," p. 138, and Messrs. Evans 

 and Buckley, "Fauna of Shetland," p. 108. 



For some interesting notes on the migration of 

 the Snow Owl as observed between Quebec and 

 Belfast, see Aim. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 107. 



A Snow Owl which had carried off a nestling 

 Peregrine was pursued by the parent falcon, over- 

 taken, and killed at a single stoop. It was picked 

 up by an eye-witness. Richardson, " Journal in 

 Rupert's Land," vol. i. p. 206. 



A pair of Snow Owls brought from Norway in 

 1891 nested in 1898, and reared two young ones in 

 captivity (W. H. St. Quintin, Avicultural Magazine, 

 Sept. 1898, p. 198). Some years previously a pair 

 bred in an aviary of Mr. Edward Fountain of Easton, 

 Norfolk. See Ibis, 1859, p. 273, and 1875, p. 517. 



HAWK OWL. Surnia funerea (JAnnddns). Length, 15 '5 

 in. ; wing, 9*5 in. ; tarsus, 1 in. 



Hah. Northern Europe, Asia, and America. 



One, coast of Cornwall, March 1830 : Thompson, Proc. 



Zool. Soc, 1835, p. 77; Rodd, "Birds of Cornwall," 



p. 20. 

 One, Backwell Hill, near Yatton, August 25, 1847: 



Higgins, Zool, 1851, p. 3029. 

 One, North Unst, Shetland, 1860 : Crotch, Zool, 1861, 



p. 7706 ; Gray, " Birds of West of Scotland," p. 64. 

 One, Maryhill, near Glasgow, Dec. 1863 : Gray, Ic. 



