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bury, in the spring of 1844, and another was killed 

 in Caen Wood, Hampstead, in the spring of 1859. 

 A third, in the collection of Mr. Mitford, of Hamp- 

 stead, was also obtained in that neighbourhood. 

 The Hon. F. C. Bridgeman, who has published a 

 short notice of the birds of Harrow, says that a nest 

 of this bird was found in a hollow tree in the Grove, 

 Harrow, in the spring of 1862 ; and I am informed 

 by Mr. J. W. Ford, of Enfield, that the Tawny Owl 

 has occasionally been observed in that neighbour- 

 hood. The ordinary food of this bird consists of 

 water-rats, field-mice, and small birds. I have, 

 however, heard of its capturing fish; and in the 

 stomach of an adult Tawny Owl, shot in April, 

 which I examined, I found nothing but insects, the 

 greater number of which were large moths. 



Scops-EARED Owl, Strix scops.* "One example 

 of this little Owl was taken some time since near 

 London." f 



Little Owl, Strix passerina.t This Little Owl, 

 which is occasionally found in England, is not the 

 Strix passerina of Linnaeus, but Sti^ix passerina of 

 Latham, Pennant, Montagu, Bewick, and Temminck. 



=!= This, and the two following species, I have inserted on 

 the authority of Edwards and Yarrell as having been 

 obtained in this county. 



t Yarrell's British Birds, vol. i., p. 128. 



I Id. vol. i., p. 163. 



