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“Many specimens, said to be eggs of this bird, have lately been 
received by European oologists, the majority of which are from the 
missionaries in Labrador. One of those I now exhibit I obtained 
from Herr Méschler. He received it, with several others, in 1860, 
from the Okkak, one of the four stations maintained on the coast by 
the United Brethren. He has had in all more than two dozen from 
that quarter. The Esquimaux find and bring them to the mission- 
aries; and the accounts they give tally exactly with those I have 
just quoted from other sources. The bird always breeds on the 
ground in bare places, and often lays a considerable number of eggs.” 
Genus SurniA. 
Hitherto the birds of this form inhabiting Northern Europe and 
the northern parts of America have been regarded as identical, in 
which case the genus would consist of a single species; but, at a 
recent meeting of the Zoological Society, Messrs. Sharpe and Dresser 
have endeavoured to show that the American bird is different from 
the European. 
AD OURNTAMPUNERBEA) 4) of 8 4a SS Vol LPI XKXV. 
Hawk Own. 
Six or seven instances of the occurrence of the Hawk Owl in 
Britain are on record. 
Genus Nycratr. 
The only member of this genus known to have been found in 
England is the Nyctale Tengmalmi, of Northern Europe and North 
America. 
Ass NYCUMER THNGMALMI~ i... « «5 » « »--Voledk Pk XXXVI. 
TENGMALM’s OwL. 
Although Mr. Harting enumerates twenty instances of the occur- 
rence of this bird in various parts of our islands, it must still be re- 
garded as a rare and uncertain visitor. Its range extends over 
Europe and Northern Asia, as far south as Nepaul; and if, as Mr. 
Elliot believes, the species known as NV. Richardsoni be identical 
with it, then the northern and arctic portions of North America 
must be included within the circuit of its domain. 
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Genus ATHENE. 
This section of the Owls comprises many species, distributed over 
Europe, India, and other portions of the Old World. By modern 
systematists these have been subdivided into no less than fifteen 
subgenera, the particulars of which need not be detailed here, inas- 
much as we have only to deal with the single species which visits 
our country. 
