OWLS. 89 
One shot on the Mersey, June 1843: formerly in Maccles- 
field Museum, but sold with other birds by auction at 
Stevens’s on the 14th June, 1861, realizing £9 10s. See 
‘The Field, 22nd June, 1861. 
RED-SHOULDERED BUZZARD. Buteo lineatus (Gme- 
lin). 
Hab, North America, east of the Rocky Mountains, from 
Texas to Northern Canada. 
One, Kingussie, Inverness, 26th Feb. 1863: Newcome, 
The Ibis, 1865, p. 549; Gray, Birds of the West of Scot- 
land, p. 49. 
Fam. STRIGID &. 
SNOWY OWL. WNyctea nivea (Daudin). 
Hab. North America, Northern Europe, and Asia, as far 
eastward as Amoorland. 
One, Shetland, spring 1812: Edmonstone, Trans. Wern. Soc. 
Edinb. 1822. 
One, Unst, Shetland, Sept. 1813: Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 
1. p. 135. : 
One, Felbrigg, Norfolk, Ist April, 1814: Hunt, Brit. Orn. 
(1815). 
One, Gunton, Norfolk, Jan. 1820: Hunt, m Stacey’s Hist. 
Norf. (1829). 
Two, Rothbury, Northumberland, Jan. 1823: Selby, Ilustr. 
Brit. Orn. 1. p. 96. 
One, Inchigeela, 1827: Harvey, Fauna of Cork, p. 5. 
Several in Ireland: Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), 1. 
Pagoe 
One, Sanday, Orkney, April 1835: Neill, Mag. Nat. Hist. 
vill. p. 508. 
