OWLS. 93 



Hunt, op. tit., the nest is reported to have been met 

 with in the New Forest (Wise, 'New Forest,' p. 314), 

 and the young taken and reared at Harrow (Ward, 

 'The Field,' 14th Jan. 1865). 



MOTTLED OWL. Scops asio (Linnaeus). 



Hob. United States of North America and Canada. 



One, Hawksworth Cover, * near Kirkstall Abbey, 1852 : 



Naturalist, 1855, p. 169, and figure. 

 One near Yarmouth, Norfolk : Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, 



vol. i. p. 44. 



Obs. The occurrence of this species in England 

 must be considered doubtful. 



SCOPS OWL. Scops giu (Scopoli). 



Hab. Southern Europe ; Western Asia ; Northern Africa. 



Two, Yorkshire (one near Weatherby), spring 1805; Montagu, 



Orn. Diet., Suppl. 

 One, Strumpshaw, Norfolk, June 1824 : Stevenson, Birds of 



Norfolk, vol. i. p. 43. 

 One, near London, prior to 1833 : Selby, Illustr. Brit. Orn. 



i. p. 93. 

 One, Brill, Bucks, spring 1833 : Mathews, Zoologist, 1849, 



p. 2596. 

 Two, Audley End, Essex, prior to Nov. 1837 : Yarrell, Mag. 



Nat. Hist. iii. p. 100, and Hist. Brit. Birds, i. p. 128. 

 One, Loughcrew, Meath, prior to 1837 : Thompson, P. Z. S. 



1837, p. 54, and Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), i. p. 85. 

 Two, Yarmouth, and two near Norwich : Gurney & Fisher, 



Zoologist, 1846, p. 1304. 

 One, Scilly, llth April, 1847: Rodd, Zoologist, 1847, 



p. 1773. Figured in Gould's Birds of Great Britain. 



