8 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 
Fam. STRIGID &. 
WHITE or BARN OWL. Strix flammea, Linneus. 
Resident and generally distributed. 
TAWNY OWL. Syrnium aluco (Linneus). 
Resident in England and Scotland, and increasing 
in many of the Scottish counties. Mr. Thompson 
says (Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds, i. p. 94) that, if in- 
cluded at all in the Irish fauna, it must be considered 
extremely rare. 
LONG-EARED OWL. Otus vulgaris, Fleming. 
Resident, chiefly in wooded districts of the north 
of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr. J. H. Gurney 
informs me that ‘ some always breed in young fir plan- 
tations in Norfolk, but by far the greater number occur 
as regular autumnal migrants.” 
SHORT-EARED OWL. Oftus brachyotus (Forster). 
Nests regularly in Scotland and the north of Eng- 
land, and resident all the year in the west of Scotland 
north of Ayrshire. A winter visitant to the south of 
England and to Ireland. It has now probably ceased 
to breed in Norfolk, but is numerous as a regular au- 
tumnal migrant to the eastern counties of England. 
On the subject of Owls, the student should refer to 
Dr. Kaup’s “ Monograph of the Owls,” published in 
vol. iv. of the ‘'Transactions of the Zoological Society.’ 
