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Edwards gives a coloured plate and description of 

 a Little Owl, and adds, that " the bird from which 

 it was taken came down a chimney in St. Catherine's 

 parish, by the Tower of London, and was supposed 

 to be a foreign bird escaped from on board some 

 ship in the river Thames ; but I have since been 

 informed by Peter Theobald, Esq., of Lambeth, that 

 just such another Owl came down one of his chim- 

 neys, by which I imagine it is a native of England, 

 though little known." 



The first-mentioned example " was a hen, many 

 eggs being found on opening it, and the bird being 

 living when I made my observations on it, enabled 

 me to make the description more perfect. It was 

 the property of a gentleman in St. Catherine's, a 

 neighbour of my good friend Mr. Joseph Ames, 

 Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries, London, 

 who procured me a sight of it." * 



I have been assured by Mr. Constantine Minasi 

 (brother to the late Consul for the Two Sicilies), a 

 gentleman well acquainted with birds, that some 

 years ago, while returning one evening from shooting 

 at Kenton Park, Sunbury, he distinctly saw a 

 Little Owl on the wing. 



TENGMALM'S OWL, Stria: Tengmalmi " In 1836, 

 a specimen, recently shot, was purchased at a 



* Edwards' ' Gleanings in Nat. Hist.,' vol. i., p. 228. 



