PRELIMINARY CLASSIFIED NOTES 



fish (Audubon). In the British Idea it subsists chiefly on rabbit*, but will take 

 I. mis of many species, mice, and even beetles and spiders (cf. S&xby, Birds of Shetland, 

 p. 50). [F. c. R. J.] 



6. Song Period. Is most vociferous during the breeding season, [w. p. p.] 



The following species and sub-species are described in the supplementary chapter 

 on " Rare Bird* 



Dark breasted barn-owl, Strix flammea flammea Linnaeus, Ty to alba guttaia 



(Brehm). 



Tengmalm's owl, Nyctala tengmalmi (Gmelin). 

 European hawk-owl, Surnia ulula ulula (Linnaeus), [Surnia funerea 



(Linnaeus)]; and 



American hawk-owl, Surnia ulula caparoch (P. L. 8. Miiller). 

 Scops owl, Otu* scops (Linnaeus), [Scops giu (Scopoli)]. 

 Eagle-owl, Bubo bubo (Linnaeus), [Bubo ignants, T. Forster]. [F. c. R. J.] 



