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Athene nodua (Scopoli). — Steenuil. 



1 sp. Riethoven (N. Br.), 13 Mei 1857. Met den vogel. Uit de 

 collectie-J. Baker. Hierbij Staat verder vermeid: 



„This is one of four eggs from a nest on which the bird was caught, 

 says Mr. Baker. He only met with this species in Holland, laying generally 

 four eggs, never less than three." 



Newton voegde hieraan toe: 



„Mr.. W. BRroGEE has some notes on the breeding-habits of the Little 

 Owl in this district." 



4 sp. N. Brabant (z. n. a.), 1851. 



2 „ Varen (sic) '), N. Brab., 2 April 1858. 



De hierboven door Newton bedoelde „notes" zijn te vinden in 

 het artikel, getiteld: „Notes from a bird-nesting expedition to the south 

 of Holland"^ voorkomende in „The Naturalist", 1855, pp. 271/2, waar- 

 van het mij onlangs gelukt is het eerste gedeelte te verkrijgen. 

 Aangezien ik het genoemde tijdschrift te vergeefs in een onzer 

 openbare Bibliotheken gezocht heb, laat ik hier voor den belangstel- 

 lenden lezer curiositeitshalve de inleiding van het bewuste artikel 

 van Beidger, waarin enkele namen voorkomen, die in dit Overzicht 

 nog al eens genoemd worden, in den oorspronkelijken tekst volgen. 



„The excellent descriptions of the habits and nesting places of many of 

 the rarer British Birds, by the late Mr. Hoy, as given in Mr. Hewitson's 

 „Illustrations of the Eggs of British Birds", induced me to take a trip 

 to the south of Holland. Accordingly, the 7th May last (1855), I left 

 this country, and crossing over to Antwerp, found myself, on the 9tt, 

 at Valkenswaard, a small village, situate between the rivers Dommel 

 and Tongelreep, near the Belgian frontier, about seven miles from the 

 town of Eindhoven, and about twenty-eight from the still larger town of 

 Bois le Duc, called by the Dutch 's Hertogenbosch (or „The Bosch", as 

 they often term it, for shortness), on the Meuse, Here, then, at the com- 

 fortable „Valken Inn", with its painted signboard of a Hooded Falcon, 

 I took up my quarters for the season. And with no flaunting boast has 

 that Inn derived its name of the Falcon Inn, for its good owner, Mr. 

 James Bots, was falconer in England for years, and has not long retired 

 from being falconer to the hawking club at the Loo of which the King 

 is the president, and is now, as ever, ready to be first or second in 



1) Vermoedelijk zal Varenhout bedoeld zijn, een gebucht in de Meijerij van 

 's Hertogenbosch gelegen, v. P. L. 



