OWLS. 95 



One or more in Scotland and in Yorkshire : Montagu, Orn. 



Diet. 1803-1813. 



One, Fifeshire : Pennant, Caledonian Zoology, p. 18. 

 One, Honiton, Devon, 1820: Moore, Trans. Plymouth 



Institution (1830), p. 298. 

 One, Shardlow, Derbyshire, 1828 : Briggs, Zoologist, 1849, 



p. 2477. 

 One near Oxford, winter 1833 : Matthews, Zoologist, 1849, 



p. 2596. 



One seen near Goring, autumn 1843; Matthews, /. c. 

 One, Hampstead, Middlesex, 3rd Nov. 1845 : Hall, Zoologist, 



1846, p. 1495 ; Harting, Birds of Middlesex, p. 13. 

 One Swansea : Dillwyn's Fauna and Flora of Swansea, p. 4. 

 Several, at different times, in Derbyshire : Briggs, Zoologist, 



1849, p. 2477. 

 One near Aberdeen, Feb. 1866 : Gray, Birds of West of 



Scotland, p. 55. 



Obs. In Low's 'Fauna Orcadensis,' 1813, p. 41, 

 this bird is said " still to be found," as if it were at 

 that date a resident in Orkney ; and in a more recent 

 1 Fauna Orcadensis,' by Messrs. Baikie and Heddle 

 (1848), the authors remark (p. 30) that it is " believed 

 still to breed in the Hammers of Birsay, Orkney." 

 It is seen occasionally in Shetland (Crotch, ' Zoologist,' 

 1861, p. 7339 ; and Saxby, ' Zoologist,' 1864, p. 9240). 

 In Ireland it is said to have been only once observed 

 (Thompson, ' Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds),' p. 85). 



ACADIAN OWL. Nyctale acadica (Gmelin). 

 Hob. North America. 



One near Beverley, Yorkshire : Sir. Win. Milner, Zoologist, 

 1860, p. 7104. 



