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Hampshire, Yorkshire, and Northamptonshire, where, 

 in June 1895, the late Lord Lilford was informed 

 of three or four nests with eggs and young (Zool., 

 1896, p. 54). At Lilford Hall a nest was found 

 containing six eggs (Zool., 1891, p. 46), and 

 another with four eggs (Zool, 1893, p. 90). A 

 nest is reported to have been met with in the New 

 Forest (Wise, "New Forest," p. 314), and the young 

 have been taken and reared at Harrow (Field, Jan. 

 14, 1865). 



The measurements above given were taken 

 from the specimen brought to me from Dunmow, 

 which measured in extent of wing 20 in. and 

 weighed nearly 8 oz. ; the iris pale straw-yellow, 

 the pupil very large and black. 



MOTTLED OWL. Scops asio (Linnseus). Length, 10 in. ; 

 wing, 6-75 in. ; tarsus, 1*5 in. 



Hab. United States of North America and Canada. 



One, Hawksworth Wood, near Kirkstall Abbey, summer, 

 1852: Hobson, Naturalist, 1852, p. 169, and figure;. 

 Yarrell, " Brit. Birds," 3rd edit. 



One near Yarmouth, Norfolk : Stevenson, " Birds of Nor- 

 folk," vol. i. p. 44. 



Ohs. The occurrence of this American species in 

 England in a truly wild state must be considered 

 doubtful, and it has not been included by Prof. 

 Newton in the 4th edition of Yarrell's "British 

 Birds." The specimens above noted were possibly 

 imported and escaped, or may have been design- 

 edly turned out, as in the case of the Little Owl. 



