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more, but he cannot fix date, or circumstances. I also have a 
specimen of this bird in my own collection, but it was killed by a 
friend of mine on the opposite coast of Brittany, and I cannot prove 
that it flew over there from Wiltshire. 
Noctua Tengmalmi, “Tengmalm’s Owl.” Concerning the oc- 
eurrence of this bird, Mr. Hart is able to give me a more recent 
notice, but he is unfortunately unable to recall the exact circum- 
stances attaching to it. He distinctly remembers however a specimen 
of this bird passing through his hands for preservation about twelve 
years ago. But he has no note concerning it, and he cannot 
perfectly recall where it went to, but he has no doubt that it was 
killed somewhere in the immediate neighbourhood.! In size and 
colouring this little bird is not at all unlike Strie Passerina, but it 
can be distinguished at a glance by its thickly-feathered tarsi and feet. 
Scops Aldrovandi, “The Scops Eared Owl.” Of this most 
beautifully-pencilled little bird, I have several notices, I am glad to 
say. One of them was shot by Mr. E. Rawlence, in the spring of 
1873, in Wilton Park, and presented by him to the Earl of Pembroke. 
This little bird had attracted the attention of several people some 
time previously by its peculiar and reiterated cry—and from never 
having learned that hard lesson of “ holding its tongue,” it met with 
its fate. Mr. Hayden also had a good specimen, killed some time 
ago in the New Forest, from whence several specimens have been 
obtained. Mr. Hart told me that one of the forest keepers, Toomer 
by name, saw, not long ago, no less that five Scops Eared Owls, in 
the Forest at the same time, being apparently two old and three 
_ young birds of one family. One of these he killed, and Mr. Hart 
has it now in his own collection. And on another occasion, he 
_ writes, that the same keeper “ saw a ‘ Scops’ one wet day, in the 
_ Forest, got quite close to it, and on returning to the place with his 
gun could not find it. He said he could not be mistaken, it heing 
_ only a few yards distant.” 
This finishes the notices of the Raptores (in this and the 
1T see in the Zoologist for April, 1877, mention is made of the capture of one 
of these birds by some boys in the Barking Road, Poplar, in January last; but 
_ they visit us very rarely. 
