APPENDIX. 
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Lue occurrence of the Hawk Owl in this county 
had somehow escaped my notice until too late to 
insert it in its proper place: I have therefore added 
it in an Appendix, as it certainly ought not to be 
entirely omitted. 
Hawk Own, Surnia funerea. This is a very rare 
British bird, only two other specimens, I believe, 
having occurred besides the Somersetshire one: 
one of these was taken alive on board a collier brig 
a few miles off the coast of Cornwall, and another 
British specimen is recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 
1866 (Second Series, p. 496). ‘The Somersetshire 
specimen was shot on the 25th or 26th of August, 
1847, about two o’clock in the afternoon (the sun 
shining bright at the time), whilst hawking for prey 
on Backwell Hill, near the Yatton Station on the 
Bristol and Exeter Railway. * 
I have taken the following description of the 
habits of this Owl from a note by the late Mr. 
Wolley (quoted by Mr. Newman in his edition of 
* * Zoologist’ for 1851 (p. 8029), and Montagu’s Dic- 
tionary, by Newman. 
