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109. Asio OTus (L.). Long-eared Owl. 



Whitehead records one example brought in by a man on 

 December 18. 



110. Asio flammeus Pontopp. Short-eared Owl. 



A rare winter visitor : Wharton saw one specimen on 

 April 17 , lately shot at Biguglia, and Whitehead shot one ou 

 December 13. 



111. Otus scops (L.). Scops Owl. 



Scops scops tschusii Schiebel, Ornitholog. Jahrbuch^ xxi. 

 p. 102 (1910— Corsica). 



Local names: CarcaviccMola, Malagella (Giglioli) ; Cioccio. 



A common summer resident after the end of March, 

 according to Whitehead^ breeding not only in the low ground, 

 but at a height of more than 3O0O ft. in the mountains. 

 Schiebel distinguishes it from the continental form by the 

 more distinct clay-yellow tone, especially about the throat of 

 the male, but Parrot finds that this character is not constant. 

 The breeding-season is at the end of May : Whitehead took 

 a clutch of four eggs, three much incubated and one nearly 

 fresh, on June 3. We found two eggs in a hole of a cork-oak 

 on May 24, and single eggs (one laid by a captured bird) 

 w ere brought to us on May 28 and May 30. The monotonous 

 note, repeated at regular intervals all the evening, is one 

 of the most characteristic sounds of Corsican village-life. 

 Jesse found this bird in the Bastia market, partly plucked 

 to shew the fat ! 



112. Tyto alba alba (Scop.). \_Strix flammea auct.] 

 \Yhite-breasted Barn-Owl . 



Strix ernesti Kleinschmidt, Ornith. Monatsber. ix. p. 163 

 (1901— Sardinia). 



Local name : Malagella. Resident in small numbers on 

 the east and south sides of the island on the lower ground, 

 and, according to Parrot, haunting the little mortuary 

 chapels Mhich are so common in the island. An example 

 was brought in alive to Whitehead by a boy on May 15 ; on 

 May 16 I came across the remains of a distinctly white- 

 bi'casted bird, and on the evening of May 24 one flew within 

 a few vards of us. We also heard the well-known shriekics: 



