SHORT-EARED OWL. 119-83 
In Wirral, Brockholes described the Long-eared Owl 
as resident in the fir-woods of Bidston, Prenton Mount, 
Storeton, Ness, Burton, and Ledsham,! and there are 
young birds in down in the Grosvenor Museum, 
Chester, from Saughall. It breeds in Stanney Wood 
near Thornton-le-Moors, and on the Eaton Estate? as 
well as at Delamere, where it is fairly common. Butts 
Clough in the Bollin Valley, the Moss Covert at Plumb- 
ley, Rudheath, Gawsworth, Alderley Edge, Dunham 
Park, and the fir-woods bordering Carrington Moss may 
also be cited as localities in the Plain where it nests. 
In the Goyt Valley and the wooded parts of the Hill 
Country it is the commonest Owl, and is often taken in 
the keepers’ pole-traps. 
After a storm in May 1887, we found two young 
Long-eared Owls that had been blown out of a nest in 
a fir at Plumbley. On climbing to the nest we found 
upon it a Yellow Ammer and a nestling of some small 
bird, as well as the tail of a Pied Wagtail. In order to 
prepare them for the consumption of the young Owls, 
the birds had been decapitated and partially denuded 
of feathers, and their bones had been crushed. 
SHORT-EARED OWL. 
ASIO ACCIPITRINUS (Pallas). 
This well-known autumn visitor is found in open 
situations in Cheshire, from the coast sandhills to the 
moors of the East, and is often flushed by shooting- 
parties from its resting-place amongst the turnips or in 
the heather. Mr. L. Jones has a specimen which he 
shot on Hilbre Island. 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 4. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 311. 
