308 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



and others have been introduced into various parts of the 

 kingdom, thus rendering the task of discrimination between 

 liberated birds and genuine migrants an extremely difficult one. 



The following occurrences suggest the probability of their 

 being " migratories " : 



In the collection at Burton Agnes, formed by the late Sir 

 Henry Boynton, is a female, obtained at Flamborough in 

 1860, by R. Barkley, whose brother, Samuel Barkley of Brid- 

 lington, told me it was observed to fly into a thorn bush in 

 a small ravine running up from the beach, whence it was 

 flushed and killed. 



Mr. J. Whitaker announced in the Naturalist (1884, p. 336), 

 and Zoologist (1885, p. 349), that one was captured, on a 

 fishing boat off Scarborough, in November 1884, and taken 

 to A. Roberts, who preserved it for Mr. Whitaker's collection. 

 About six months later another was trapped at Seamer, 

 near Scarborough, and the recorder appends the remark that 

 probably they had come over together from the Continent. 



The Little Owl has occurred on several other occasions 

 in Yorkshire. One in Mr. T. Boynton's possession formerly 

 formed part of the late W. W. BoultonV collection at Beverley. 



The late J. Carter of Masham informed me (in Hit. 1902), 

 that one was taken near Kirby Malzeard " many years ago." 



A specimen is mentioned by Mr. A. Crabtree in the " Halifax 

 Naturalist " (1900, p. 86), as captured at Norland Moor, by J. 

 Cunningham, but no date is given. 



At Pocklington a specimen is reported by Mr. G. Steels 

 (MS. 1902), " ten years since." 



And in the Naturalist (1897, p. 76), Mr. J. Backhouse 

 mentions an adult female, procured at Escrick on 24th 

 December 1896, and preserved by Mr. Ed. Allan of York. 



