22 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



quite as common in Alderney, from which Island I 

 have seen specimens, and I think also from Herm, 

 but I cannot be quite sure about this, though of 

 course there can be no reason why it should not be 

 found there, as Herm is only three miles as the 

 crow flies from Guernsey. 



17. BARN OWL. Alucoflammeus, Linnaeus. French, 

 " Chouette effraie." I have never seen the Barn 

 or Yellow Owl alive in the Channel Islands myself, 

 but Mr. MacCulloch does not consider it at all rare 

 in Guernsey, and Mr. Jago informs me the Barn 

 Owls have taken possession of a pigeon-hole in a 

 house in the Brock Eoad opposite his, and that he 

 sees and hears them every night. Some years ago 

 he told me he shot one near the Queen's Tower. He 

 was not scared like the man who shot one in the 

 churchyard, and thought he had shot a cherubim, 

 but he had to give up shooting owls, as the owner 

 of the pigeon-hole where the owls have taken up 

 their abode remonstrated with him, and he has 

 since refrained, though he has had several chances. 

 The vacancy caused by the one being shot was soon 

 filled up. 



The Barn Owl is mentioned in Professor Ansted's 

 list, and restricted to Guernsey and Sark. There 

 are two specimens in the Museum, both of which 

 are said to have been killed in Guernsey. 



