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ON THE MORE IMPORTANT ADDITIONS TO OUR 

 KNOWLEDGE OF BRITISH BIRDS SINCE 1899. 



BY 



H. F. WITHERBY and N. F. TICEHURST. 

 Part VIII. 



(Continued from page 284.) 



LONG-EARED OWL Asio otus (L.). S. page 293. 



Outer Hebrides. — Said to have been seen near Stornoway, 

 and one shot in Barra, October, 1899 ; and another seen in 

 October. 1900 (J. A. Harvie-Brown, Ann. S.N.H., 1902, 

 p. 200). 



Habits. — A pair nested on the ground in Wilton Park, near 

 Blackburn, Lanes., in 1904. A photograph of the young 

 in the nest is given (R. J. Howard, Zool., 1904, p. 259). A nest 

 was also found on the ground in 1902 on Sheringham Common, 

 Norfolk, and photographs were exhibited (T. Digby Pigott, 

 Bull. B.O.C., XIII., pp. 20 and 57). 



SHORT-EARED OWL Asio accipitrinus (Pall.). 

 S. page 295. 



Has nested of recent years in Essex (E. A. Fitch, Zool., 

 1896, p. 233), Cambs. (N.F.T.), Anglesey (T. D. Coward and 

 C. Oldham, i.e., 1904, p. 26) ; Hants {B. of Hants, p. 130) ; 

 Devon (B. F. Cummings, Zool., 1907, p. 23) ; and Kent 

 (Field, 28, v., 04) ; besides those counties indicated by 

 Howard Saunders. 



TENGMALM'S OWL Nyctala tengmalmi (Gm.). S. page 299. 



Suffolk. — One was picked up in an exhausted state on 

 October 30th, 1901, on the beach at Southwold, and another 

 about the same date in the garden of the Grand Hotel at the 

 same place (F. W. Frohawk, Field, 1902, p. 177). 



Norfolk. — One picked up at Thornham, on the same 

 date as the Suffolk ones (J. H. Gurney, Zool., 1902, p. 93). 



Northamptonshire. — One was shot at Apthorpe on Janu- 

 ary 8th, 1902 {id., t.c, 1902, p. 68). 



