8 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



Fam. STRIGID^E. 



WHITE or BAEN OWL. Strix flammed, Linnaeus. 

 Resident and generally distributed. 



TAWNY OWL. Syrnium aluco (Linnaeus). 



Resident in England and Scotland, and increasing 

 in many of the Scottish counties. Mr. Thompson 

 says (Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds, i. p. 94) that, if in- 

 cluded at all in the Irish fauna, it must be considered 

 extremely rare. 



LONa-EAEED OWL. Otus vulgaris, Fleming. 



Resident, chiefly in wooded districts of the north 

 of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr. J. H. Gurney 

 informs me that " some always breed in young fir plan- 

 tations in Norfolk, but by far the greater number occur 

 as regular autumnal migrants." 



SHOET-EAEED OWL. Otus brachyotus (Forster). 



Nests regularly in Scotland and the north of Eng- 

 land, and resident all the year in the west of Scotland 

 north of Ayrshire. A winter visitant to the south of 

 England and to Ireland. It has now probably ceased 

 to breed in Norfolk, but is numerous as a regular au- 

 tumnal migrant to the eastern counties of England. 



On the subject of Owls, the student should refer to 

 Dr. Kaup's " Monograph of the Owls," published in 

 vol. iv. of the ' Transactions of the Zoological Society.' 



