126 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
In the Warrington Museum there is a specimen 
which was shot by a gamekeeper named Robinson 
at Arley, in December 1887. Mr. R. J. Smith in- 
formed Dr. Dobie that a small species of Owl, which 
he believed to be the Little Owl, bred in an oak in 
Eaton Park some time late in the eighties.! 
SCOPS OWL. 
Scops e1u (Scopoli). 
This rare wanderer has reached Cheshire on one 
occasion. An example in the possession of Mr. J. H. 
Leche was shot by his gamekeeper in June 1868, 
at Carden Park. The bird was heard on several 
evenings before it was obtained, uttering its peculiar 
ery of kew, kew.? 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 312. 
2 Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. i. 1873. 
Of. Yarrell, History of British Birds, 4th edit. vol. 1. p. 174. 
Harting, Handbook of British Birds, p. 94. 
3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 312. 
