200 Letters, Extracts, Notices, ?^c. 



Croft House, Holy wood, co. Down, 

 February 23rd, 1889. 



Sir, — I wish to record in your pages a recent interesting 

 ornithological occurrence in this country, that of a Snowy 

 Owl [Nyctea scandiaca). The bird was shot near Dundrum, 

 CO. Down, on 21st January last, and was sent into Belfast 

 the following day, when I had an opportunity of examining 

 it in the flesh. It measured 4 feet 10 inches from tip to tip 

 of the extended wings. It is an exceedingly handsome bird, 

 the extent of the dark markings on its otherwise snow-white 

 plumage being intermediate between the two figures in 

 Dresser's plate. No. 310. It was started out of a clump 

 of bushes between the rabbit-warren and the sea, and shot 

 as it was sailing slowly away. 



Yours &c., 



K. Lloyd Pattekson. 



Kilmory, Lochgilpliead, 



February 27, 1889. 



Sir, — Mr. Harvie-Brown is perfectly correct in saying 

 (above, p. 135) that at p. 492 of your October number 

 there is a misprint. But unfortunately the correction he 

 makes is equally wrong. The name I wrote was " Dr. John 

 MacRury.^' 



Mr. Harvie-Brown ought to know better than to call the 

 " Monack,'^ or Monck Islands, " Monarch.'' But very likely 

 this is also a misprint ? 



Yours &c., 



John Campbell-Orde. 



Canary Islands, Tenerife, Puerto Orotava, 

 February 5th, 1889. 



Sir, — It may possibly not be altogether without interest 

 to British ornithologists to know that I was fortunate enough 

 to discover the nest of Fringilla teydea during last sum- 

 mer in the south of this island. The nest, which contained 

 two richly green-coloured eggs, was at the top of a Pinns 



