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America, therefore, should be added to the habitat. 

 The measurements above given were taken from 

 the last-reported specimen in the collection of Mr. 

 Ourney. The bill was of a pale horn colour, 

 darker on the cutting edges of both mandibles ; 

 claws black ; eyes large and of a pale chrome- 

 yellow, pupil black. 



EAGLE OWL. Bubo miaximus, Fleming. Length, 26 in. ; 

 wing, 18-5 in. ; tarsus, 3-25 in. 



Hah. Europe and Asia. 



One, Yorkshire: Pennant, "Brit. Zool.," i. p. 157 (1768). 



One, Hurstmonceux, Sussex, Dec. 29, 1784: Latham, 

 " Synopsis," 1st Suppl. ; Fox, " Synopsis Newcastle 

 Museum," p. 52 ; Borrer, "Birds of Sussex," p. 81. 



One, Kent : Latham, ojx cit. 



One or more in Scotland and in Yorkshire: Montagu, 

 " Orn. Diet.," 1802-181.3. 



One, Fifeshire : Pennant, " Caledonian Zoology," p. 18. 



One, Honiton, Devon, 1820 : Moore, Trans. Plymouth Inst., 

 1830, p. 298 ; D'Urban, "Birds of Devon," p. 137. 



One, Horton near Bradford, about 1824: Denny, "Cata- 

 logue of Yorkshire Birds," Ann. Nat. Hist., 1840. 



One, Shardlow, Derbyshire, 1828: Briggs, Zool, 1849, 

 p. 2477 ; Whitlock, " Birds of Derbyshire," p. 124. 



One near Oxford, winter 1833: Matthews, Zool, 1849, 

 p. 2596 ; Aplin, " Birds of Oxfordshire," p. 38. 



One caught alive oft" Flamborough, 1837: Hawkridge, 

 Naturalist, iii. p. 155. 



One seen near Goring, autumn 1843 : Matthews, I.e. 



One, Hampstead, Middlesex, Nov. 3, 1845 : Hall, Zool, 

 1846, p. 1495 ; Harting, " Birds of Middlesex," p. 13. 



One seen, Greetland, near Halifax, Nov. 1845 (Clarke). 



One, Swansea : Dillwyn's " Fauna of Sw^ansea," p. 4. 



