OWLS 33 3 



One taken alive on board a fishing-smack 10 miles ofi 



Yarmouth, Feb. 6, 1862 : Stevenson, op. cit. 

 One, Sevenoaks, Kent, 1862. In collection of F. Bond. 

 One, Draycot, Calne, Wilts, 1862 : A. C. Smith, ZooL, 1866, 



p. 227, and " Birds of Wiltshire." 

 One, Yorkshire : Yarrell, " Hist. Brit. Birds." 

 One, Worcestershire : Hastings, " N. H. Worcester," p. 65. 

 One, Ormskirk : Smith, " Nat. Hist. Mersey District," p. 48. 

 One, Wiltshire : Rennie, Note to White's " Selbome," p. 34. 

 One near Bristol : Yarrell, (yp. cit. 

 One, Sunbury, Middlesex: "Birds of Middlesex," p. 21. 

 One near Helston, Cornwall : Rodd, " List of Brit. Birds " 



(2nd ed.), p. 10 ; " Birds of Cornwall," p. 20. 

 One, Chigwell, Essex, Jan. 2, 1865: Ward, Field, Jan. 



14, 1865; Christy, "Birds of Essex," p. 161. 

 One near Bury St. Edmunds, Feb. 1865 : Stevenson, MS. 

 One, Cambridge, " lately : " Farren, Zool, 1867, p. 791. 

 One, Welney, Norfolk, spring 1867 : Stevenson, MS. 

 One, Highgate Woods, Middlesex, Oct. 1870 : seen by Mr. 



J. G. Keulemans, who, being well acquainted with the 



species in Holland, had no difficulty in recognising it. 

 One, New Shoreham, Sussex, March 1877 : Borrer, Zool., 



1877, p. 228, and " Birds of Sussex," p. 33. 

 One, taken on board a fishing-boat off Scarborough, Nov. 



1884: Whitaker, Zool, 1885, p. 349. 

 One, trapped, Seamer, near Scarborough, April 1884: 



Cordeaux, Nat, 1885, p. 336. 

 One, caught in a rabbit-trap near Thame, Oxfordshire, 



Nov. 11, 1891 : Aplin, Zool., 1892, p. 332. 

 One, near Newark, Sept. 1896: Whitaker, Zool, 1897, 



p. 329. In his collection. 

 One, Dunmow, Essex, Oct. 22, 1900 : Harting, Proc. 



Linn. Soc, Nov. 1, 1900. Specimen exhibited. 



Obs. In several instances Little Owls have been 

 purposely turned out in different parts of the 

 country, and have done well and nested, e.g. in 



