120 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



GENUS SCOPS. 



SCOPS-OWL. 



Scops giu (Scopoli). 



Mr. John Plant writes me that a specimen, now in 

 the musemn of Peel Park, Salford, and acquired by 

 purchase in the year 1850, was stated to have been 

 trapped in Boggart Clough some years previously. 



GENUS ATHENE. 



LITTLE OWL. 



Athene noctua (Scopoli). 



The only recorded occurrence of the Little Owl in 

 Lancashire is that by Mr. Thomas Williams, Bath 

 Lodge, Ormskirk, who, asserting his acquaintance with 

 the species, wrote as follows in the Natiiralisfs Scrap 

 Book, 1863, pt. 5 : "A few _years ago I saw a fine 

 specimen of this beautiful bird in the Bath Wood, 

 Ormskirk. It was perched on a dead stump near the 

 ground, and seemed quite regardless of my approach, 

 which was accidental. It was broad daylight in the 

 summer time, and the little creature seemed spent or 

 stupefied, whether wearied with long flight or in that 

 drowsy state so common to Owls in the day-time I can- 

 not say. I could have taken it with the hand, and am 

 certain of its identity." 



