APPENDIX. 



THE occurrence of the Hawk Owl in this county 

 had somehow escaped my notice until too late to 

 insert it in its proper place : I have therefore added 

 it in an Appendix, as it certainly ought not to be 

 entirely omitted. 



HAWK OWL, Surnia funerea. This is a Tery rare 

 British bird, only two other specimens, I believe, 

 having occurred besides the Somersetshire one : 

 one of these was taken alive on board a collier brig 

 a few miles off the coast of Cornwall, and another 

 British specimen is recorded in the 'Zoologist' for 

 1866 (Second Series, p. 496). The Somersetshire 

 specimen was shot on the 25th or 26th of August, 

 1847, about two o'clock in the afternoon (the sun 

 shining bright at the time), whilst hawking for prey 

 on Backwell Hill, near the Yatton Station on the 

 Bristol and Exeter Eailway.* 



I have taken the following description of the 

 habits of this Owl from a note by the late Mr, 

 Wolley (quoted by Mr. Newman in his edition of 



* 'Zoologist' for 1851 (p. 3029), and Montagu's Dic- 

 tionary, by Newman. 



