74 Dalgleish on North American Birds in Europe. 



XXIT. Picus pubescens, L. Downy Woodpecker. 



Great Britain. 1. One, Blox worth, Dorsetshire. Cambridge, Zobl., 

 1859, p. 6444. Dec, 1836. 



XXIII. Colaptes auratus (L.). Yellow-shafted Flicker. 

 Great Britain. 1. One, Amesbury Park, Wiltshire. Marsh, Zool., 

 1859, p. 6327. In coll. of Marsh, Amesbury Park. Autumn, 1836. 



XXIV. Surnia funerea {L.). American Hawk Owl. 

 Great Britain. 1. One, came on board a collier, oif the coast of Corn- 

 wall. Proc. Zobl. Soc. Lond., 1835, p. 77. In Mas. Trin. Coll., Dublin. 

 March, 1830. 



2. One, near Yatton, Somerset. Higgins, Zobl., 3029. In coll. Mr. 

 Borrer. Aug., 1847. 



3. One, Maryhill, near Glasgow. Gray, B. W. of Scot., p. 64. 1863. 

 Obs. — One was taken to the shop of a bird-stuffer in Greenock, Nov., 



1868, supposed to have been killed near that town, as it was in the flesh. 

 Gray, 1. c. Another, recorded in Yarrell's Br. B., 4th ed., p. 184, as hav- 

 ing been killed in Unst, Shetland, in winter 1860- 61, proved to be Surnia 

 ulula, and is so recorded in Saxby's B. of Shet., p. 54. Dresser (B. of E., 

 pt. 11, 12) has first called attention to the fact of these occurrences of the 

 Hawk-Owl in Britain having been those of the American species. 



[Scops asio (//.). Mottled Owl. 



Great Britain. 1. One, Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire. Naturalist, 1855, 

 page 169 and fig. (Harting, Hand-book Br. B., p. 92). 1852. 



2. One, near Yarmouth. Stevenson, B. of Norf., I. 164. (Harting, 

 1. c.) ? 



Obs. — The occurrence of this species in England must be considered 

 doubtful. (Harting, 1. c.)] 



[Syrnium nebulosum (Forst). Barred Owl. 

 Obs. — Brehm, in his Lehrbuch, p. 69, says this species is rare in 

 Norway and Sweden, but gives no authority for this statement, which 

 seems extremely doubtful.] 



[Nyctale acadica (Gm.). Saw-whet Owl. 

 Obs. — Sir W. Milner, in Zobl, 1860, p. 7104, records one of this 

 species as having been obtained near Beverley, Yorkshire, but Harting, in 

 his Hand-book, considers it extremely doubtful, and Prof. Newton, in his 

 4th ed. of Yarrell's Br. B., states his belief that Sir. W. Milner had mis- 

 taken the species.] 



(To be continued.) 



