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One near Maidstone. In the Dover Museum. 



One, Garden Park, Cheshire, June 1868 : Gould, op. cit. 



One, Trevethoe, Cornwall, Jan. 1871: Rodd, Zool, 1871, 



p. 2482, and "Birds of Cornwall," p. 21. 

 One, Renwick, Cumberland, May 15, 1875 : Dryden, Field, 



May 22, 1875. 

 One caught alive, Belfast, Nov. 17, 1883 : R. L. Patterson. 

 One, Foulk's Mills, co. Wexford, May 31, 1889: Williams, 



Zool., 1889, p. 313. In the Museum of Science and 



Art, Dublin. 

 One, Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk, May 21, 1891 : Feilden, 



Zool, 1891, p. 315. 

 One, near Holt, Norfolk, Nov. 18, 1892: Gurney, Zool, 



1894, p. 84. 



Ohs. Messrs. Clark and Roebuck in their " Hand- 

 book of the Vertebrata of Yorkshire" (p. 42) refer 

 to specimens of the Scops Owl obtained at Womers- 

 ley, Ripley near Harrogate, Eshton Hall near 

 Gargrave, Boynton near Bridlington, Driffield, 

 Sandhutton, and Egton Bridge near Whitby. There 

 is a specimen of the Scops Owl in the Dublin Mu- 

 seum, which {Jide More) was in the collection of the 

 late Mr. T. W. Warren. This little Owl is said to 

 have nested near Oykel, Sutherlandshire (St. John, 

 "Tour in Sutherland," vol. i. p. 122), and in Castle 

 Eden Dene (Hogg, " History of Stockton-on-Tees," 

 Appendix, p. 14, and Zool., 1845, p. 1054), but 

 in neither case were the birds properly identified. 

 As to the first mentioned, there can be little doubt, 

 from the description of the nest, that the species 

 was the Short-eared Owl. 



