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EAGLE OWL. 



This owl flew out of a barn at Hornsey, Middlesex, into 

 the face of a man who was opening the door of the barn, 

 where he was going to thresh, and he thereupon knocked it 

 down with his flail. Mr. W. Borrer saw it the next day in 

 the flesh. 



SNOWY OWL. 



Shot in the Orkneys, December, 1837. 



LITTLE OWL. 



An immature specimen, shot July, 1843, at Sheffield 

 Park, Fletching, by a boy employed to fray birds. He 

 saw the owl in an apple tree, but had no shot in his gun. 

 However, as he said, the bird " kept making faces at him," 

 and having some tin tacks in his pocket, he loaded his gun 

 with them and shot it. 



A second, taken in the evening of March 27th, 1857, at 

 Holmbush Park, near Horsham, by a man who saw it fly 

 into a rabbit's burrow from which he dug it out, was given 

 to Mr. Borrer by Mr. Broad wood, of Holmbush, about 1871. 



HAWK OWL. 



Shot on Blackwell Hill, Clevedon, Somerset, August, 

 1847. 



GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 



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Two (male and female) shot December, 1839, on Beeding 

 Level, near Bramber Castle, Sussex, within ten days of each 

 other. One was wounded only and bit the man who shot it, 

 very severely. 



" Birds of Sussex," p. 36. 



Another, shot at Aldrington, Sussex, by the Eev. T. 

 Trocke, October, 1846. 



