AMERICAN HAWK-OWL. Surnia fimerea hudsonia. 



Accidental winter visitor to England and Scotland (half a dozen records). 

 Resident in the pine-forests of Arctic Araericaj a few straying in winter as 

 far south as the Northern States. 



EAGLE-OWL. Bubo maximus. 



Accidental visitor to England and Scotland. Resident in the pine- 

 forests of Europe^ North Africa, and Asia as far south as Persia, the 

 Himalayas, and North China. Subject to some climatic variation. 



SCOPS OWL. Scops scops. 



Accidental visitor ; a score records, including three Irish and one Scotch. 

 Breeds in Algeria, Europe south of the Baltic, Asia Minor, Russian 

 Turkestan, and Persia, Winters in the southern half of its breeding- 

 range and in Central Africa north of the Equator. 



Suborder ACCIPITRES. 



Family VULTURID^. 



GRIFFON VULTURE. Gyps fulvus. 



Accidental visitor; only one British record (Cork). Resident in South 

 Europe, North Africa, and South-west Asia, as far east as Russian 

 Turkestan and North India. 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE. Neophron percnopterus. 



Accidental visitor; two British records (Somerset and Essex). Summer 

 visitor to South Europe, Persia, and Russian Turkestan. Resident in 

 North Africa ; Avinter visitor to South Africa. 



