OWLS. 95 
One or more in Scotland and in Yorkshire: Montagu, Orn. 
Dict. 1803-1813. 
One, Fifeshire: Pennant, Caledonian Zoology, p. 18. 
One, Honiton, Devon, 1820: Moore, Trans. Plymouth 
Institution (1830), p. 298. 
One, Shardlow, Derbyshire, 1828: Briggs, Zoologist, 1849, 
p. 2477. 
One near Oxford, winter 1833 : Matthews, Zoologist, 1849, 
p- 2596. 
One seen near Goring, autumn 1843; Matthews, J. c. 
One, Hampstead, Middlesex, 3rd Noy. 1845: Hall, Zoologist, 
1846, p. 1495 ; Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 13. 
One Swansea: Dillwyn’s Fauna and Flora of Swansea, p. 4. 
Several, at different times, in Derbyshire: Briggs, Zoologist, 
1849, p. 2477. 
One near Aberdeen, Feb. 1866: Gray, Birds of West of 
Scotland, p. 55. 
Obs. In Low’s ‘ Fauna Orcadensis, 1813, p. 41, 
this bird is said “still to be found,” as if it were at 
that date a resident in Orkney; and in a more recent 
‘Fauna Orcadensis, by Messrs. Baikie and Heddle 
(1848), the authors remark (p. 30) that it is “ believed 
still to breed in the Hammers of Birsay, Orkney.” 
It is seen occasionally in Shetland (Crotch, ‘ Zoologist,’ 
1861, p. 7339; and Saxby, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1864, p. 9240). 
In Ireland it is said to have been only once observed 
(Thompson, ‘ Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds),’ p. 85). 
ACADIAN OWL. Nyctale acadica (Gmelin). 
Hab. North America. 
One near Beverley, Yorkshire: Sir. Wm. Milner, Zoologist, 
1860, p. 7104. 
