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covering its short legs and toes, to say nothing of the more 

 recondite differences which a closer examination will reveal. 

 It has no doubt been sometimes mistaken for the Little 

 Owl, and possibly obtained in this country more frequently 

 than it has been recorded ; since the " Little Owl," figured in 

 the folio edition of Pennant's ' British Zoology,' was pro- 

 bably of this species ; while that engraved by Bewick and 

 Selby, under the same name, certainly is so, as the Editor 

 is informed by Mr. Hancock who has seen the specimen, 

 killed at Widdrington in Northumberland in January, 1812 

 or 1813, and now in the Selby Collection at Twizell House. 

 The same gentleman adds that he has had three examples 

 of Tengmalm's Owl all taken near Newcastle-on-Tyne : the 

 first, which was recorded by Mr. Bold (Zool. p. 2765), was 

 shot at Whitburn, in October 1848 ; the second at Roth- 

 bury, in April 1849 ; and the third was caught alive at 

 Widdrington some twelve years since. In 1836, a specimen 

 recently shot was purchased in a poulterer's shop in London ; 

 and in May of the same year, the late Mr. Leadbeater re- 

 ceived a specimen for preservation which had been shot in 

 Kent. Messrs. Gurney and Fisher (Zool. p. 1305) record a 

 sixth, which was taken some years since at Bradwell in 

 Suffolk, and Dr. Morris mentions (Zool. p. 2649) an example 

 obtained at Hunmanby in Yorkshire about the year 1847. 

 In 1856 the Editor saw in the collection of Mr. William 

 Felkin, of Beeston near Nottingham, a specimen which he 

 said he had received in the flesh from near Liverpool. Mr. 

 Borrer records (Zool. p. 5988) the capture of an example, 

 near Horsham on the 27th of March, 1857, which is now in 

 his collection. Mr. Stevenson mentions an adult female, 

 killed at Burlingham in Norfolk, about the 6th of April, 1857, 

 and now in the possession of Mr. H. N. Burroughes, and has 

 kindly forwarded the further information that an example 

 was caught alive at Beechamwell in the same county, on the 

 27th of January, 1849, and is now in the collection of the 

 Rev. E. W. Dowell of Dunton. On the authority of Mr. 

 Braikenridge, Mr. Gould mentions a specimen killed at 

 Winscombe in 1859, and, lastly, Mr. Boulton records (Zool. 



