16 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



Milner thus records the capture of this small 

 American Owl near Beverley. ft I do not recollect 

 ever mentioning to you for insertion in the ' Zoo- 

 logist/ an account of my having received from a 

 young clergyman, a son of Mr. Bury, who has the 

 church at Osberton (my brother-in-law, Mr. Fol- 

 jambe's place), who, knowing I had a very fair col- 

 lection of British birds, sent me a small Owl in a 

 very curious case, which was shot in the East Riding 

 of Yorkshire, not far from Beverley, by a keeper, a 

 brother of Sir Thomas Whichcote's keeper, of As- 

 warby, Lincolnshire. He sent this bird to his 

 brother, who gave it to Mr. Bury, from whom I 

 received it. I found out afterwards, from looking 

 at Audubon's ' Birds of America/ that it was the 

 Sparrow-Owl (Strix acadica). 



INSESSOXES DENTIROSTEES. LANIADM. 



28. LANIUS EXCUBITOR, Linnaeus. Great Grey 



Shrike. 

 Provincial. Matterer. 



An occasional autumn and winter visitant. During 

 the last ten years there have been numerous occur- 

 rences of this species in North Lincolnshire, prin- 

 cipally near the coast at Saltneet, in which neigh- 

 bourhood, as I am informed by Mr. Clayton, of 

 Louth, several have been shot during the winter 

 seasons. Mr. Boulton says that a few specimens 



