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My eggs of the Short-eared Owl were received from 
Harvey, the fenman of Baitsbite when on an expedition 
into the fens of Cambridgeshire many years ago; if any 
Owl’s eggs approach the Harriers’, in one point at least, 
these specimens do; namely, in the dulness of the texture, 
and perhaps also in the elongated form. 
The eggs of Owls strike me as differing widely from 
those of the Birds of prey in two points; in glossiness of 
SES np tint, which is milk white; whereas those 
of the-fermer are often bluish white in the ground colour- 
ing; it is specially so with the Harriers. 
My clutch of eggs of the European form ‘Ulula,’ 
taken in Lapland, on June 19, 1868, and in 1883, are 
glossy, and spherical. 
The name ‘Funerea’ is followed, I suppose, in the 
B.O.U. List as having been settled upon for the American 
form, by the American Ornithologists in their Bulletin 
published by the United States National Museum, 1881. 
THE SAW-WHET OWL. 
(NycTaLe ACADICA.) 
Mentioned, to be Rejected, from the B.O.U, List. 
Not noticed by Newton. 
Not noticed by Seebohm. 
THE AMERICAN SCREECH OWL. 
(Scors Astro.) 
Mentioned in the B.O.U. List. 
Mentioned by Newton. 
Mentioned by Seebohm. 
The three authorities simply notice the two reported 
