316 BRITISH BIRDS. 



HAWK-OWL Surnia funerea (L.). S. page 305. 



Northamptonshire. — One was shot on October 19th, 



1903, at Orhngbury (J. H. Gurney, Zool, 1904, p. 214). 



SCOPS-OWL Scops giu (Scopoh). S. page 307. 



Cornwall. — A male was shot near Ludgvan, May 2nd, 

 1907 (J. Clark, Zool, 1907, p. 284). 



Hants. — A female was picked up exhausted on the shore 

 of Stokes Bay, June 10th, 1884. Two are in the Hart 

 collection, both from the New Forest, one in July, 1866, and 

 one October 29th, 1884. Another is in Lord Malmesbury's 

 collection {B. of Hants, p. 134). (Hampshire is omitted by 

 Saunders.) 



Kent. — One captured ahve at Broadstairs in March, 1898 

 (Collingwood Ingram, Bull. B.O.C., XII., p. 39). 



Norfolk. — One clearlv identified at close quarters by 

 ]VIr. P. J. Hoare at Sidestrand, April 6th, 1902 (J. H. Gurnev, 

 Zool, 1903, p. 127). 



Shetland. — Foula. — One captured April, 1900 (W. E. 

 Clarke, Ann. S.N.H., 1900, p. 184) ; and another was obtained 

 about the same time {id., i.e., 1901, p. 116). One, which "from 

 the light-keeper's careful description could only have been 

 an example of Scops-Owl." was caught on the Lighthouse Rock 

 at Unst about August 20th, 1905 (T. E. Saxby, Zool, 1906 

 p. 35). 



Ireland. — A male was caught at the lantern of the Fastnet 

 Lighthouse, May 6th, 1907 (W. J. Williams, Lc, 1907, p. 

 354). 



EAGLE-OWL Bubo ignavus Forster. S. page 309. 



Hants. — A male was killed at Paultons, near Romsey, 

 where it had been seen for a month in the ^^^nter of 1891 

 {B. of Hants, p. 135). This may have been an escaped bird. 



MARSH-HARRIER Circus oeruginosus (L.). S. page 315. 



Norfolk. — A nest ready for eggs was found in May, 1899, 

 but unfortunately the two birds were shot. It is not known 

 to have nested in Norfolk since 1894 (J. H. Gurney, Zool, 

 1900, p. 105). One was seen in May, 1900 (Heatley Noble, 

 t.c, p. 423), and others in May and June, 1903 (J. H. Gurney, 

 t.c, 1904, p. 208). 



Somerset. — In times jDast the three Harriers bred on Ex- 

 moor and on the Somerset levels, but it is doubtful if any have 

 done so during the last twenty years (F. L. Blathwayt, Zool, 



1904, p. 88). 



