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Two near Greenock, Nov. 1868, Dec. 1871 : Gray, I.e. 

 One, near Amesbury, Wilts : Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 



April 1876. Specimen exhibited. 

 One, Aberdeenshire, Nov. 7, 1898 : G. Sim. 



Ohs. A note on the habits of the Hawk Owl, as 

 observed by Wolley, will be found in The Zoologist, 

 1854, p. 4203. The long wedge-shaped tail and 

 regularly banded under-plumage are peculiarities 

 which serve to distinguish this species from others. 



V LITTLE OWL. Carine noctua (Scopoli). PL 4, fig. 5. 

 Length, 9 in. ; wing, 6o in. ; tarsus, I'o in. 



Hah. Central and Southern Europe. 



One, North Devon, 1808 : Montagu, " Orn. Diet. Suppl." 



Two, Middleshaw, Westmorland, spring 1811 : Graves, 

 "British Ornithology," 1812, vol. i. (unpaged). 



One, Flintshire : Pennant, " British Zoology," i. p. 211. 



Two, London : Edwards, " Gleanings," i. p. 228. 



A pair and nest near Norwich: Hunt, "Brit. Orn." (1815). 



One, Blofield, Norfolk, 1824 : Stevenson, " Birds," i. p. 59. 



Two near Yarmouth : Paget, " Nat. Hist. Yarmouth." 

 1834, p. 4. 



One taken alive at Derby, May 17, 1843 : Briggs, ZooL, 

 1844, p. 645. The death of this specimen was noticed 

 (Zool, 1848, p. 2141) by John Wolley, who thought it 

 might be one of those turned out by Waterton. See 

 " Essays on Nat. Hist.," 2nd series, p. 17. 



One, Fletching, Sussex, July 1843: Borrer, "Birds of 

 Sussex," p. 33. 



One, taken alive, Easton, Norfolk, 1846, lived in con- 

 finement until Dec. 1848 : Stevenson, op. cit. 



One taken alive at Maidstone, May 1856 : Whitmore 

 Baker, Zool, 1856, p. 5159. 



One caught in a rabbit burrow, Holmbush Park, near 

 Horsham, March 27, 1871 : Borrer, op. cit. 



