1614 The Zoologist — April, 1869. 



by me, I am unable to point out any differences whereby ihey may be 

 selected from American examples. The authors of ' Birds of North 

 America' give none; both Wilson and Audubon considered the 

 European and American osprey of the same species. 



Strigid^. 



American Barn Owl (Strix Pratiucola, Bonap.) — Apparently rare 

 in Newfoundland : I only examined one specimen during my resi- 

 dence there, which, having only the first joint of the wing broken, 

 was kept alive several days by the children of the man who shot it : 

 this occurred iii August, 1866. It is probably a summer migrant. 



Great Horned Owl, (Bubo virginianus, Gmel.) — Visits Newfound- 

 land for the purpose of nidification, and is not very uncommon during 

 that season, and more especially later in the summer when the young 

 leave the nests. It is called the " cat owl" by the settlers. The 

 only nest which came under ray observation was built on the ground^ 

 on a tussock of grass in the centre of a pond. The same nest had 

 been previously occupied for several years by a pair of geese [Bernicla 

 canadensis). 1 think it the more important to note this observation 

 (which, however, may not be constant even in Newfoundland, as birds 

 of prey are very varying in this respect) as Mr. E. A. Samuels, in the 

 ' Birds of Massachusetts,' says it "nests in hollows of trees, and in 

 high forks of pines." 



Henry Reeks. 

 (To be coDlinued.) 



Life- Histories of Sawflies. Translated from the Dutch of M. S. C. 

 Snellen van Vollenhoven, by J. W. May, Esq. 



(Continued from Zool. S. S. 1471). 



Nematus aurantiaccs, Hartig. 

 For the imago see Hartig, Blatt-und Holzwespen, p. 197, No. 25. 

 Larva undescribed. 



Nematus niger, antennis subtus, ore, prothorace, pleuris, pedibus et 

 alarum stigmate flavis aut luteis, abdomine aurantiaco. 



In the beginning of June, 1846, I met with a whole family of the 

 larvae of this insect, feeding on poplar in one of the lanes near the 

 village of Warmond ; I took them home, where I fed them, and, after 



