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specimen of Tengmalm’s Owl, but Iam not able to record the sex. The 
majority of specimens of this Owl which have been obtained in Great 
Britain appear to have been killed in the winter months.—Hpwarp 
- Brpwett (Richmond, 8.W.) 
Eacie Own 1n Yorxsnire.—My brother saw an Kagle Owl which was 
captured by two farm servants in July, 1876, on the edge of Rombald 
Moor, near Ilkley. I think Pennant mentions the occurrence of this 
species in this county.—H. P. Burrerrizxp (Wilsden). 
[It is Montagu who mentions the occurrence of the Eagle Owl in York- 
shire. The specimen recorded by Pennant, in his ‘ Caledonian Zoology,’ 
p. 18, was killed in Fifeshire.—Ep.] 
Snowy Own In THE Luewrs.—About the end of November, 1876, 
I received a fine adult male Snowy Owl from the island of Lewes. A friend 
of mine: who had the shootings of Bervase, in the northern portion of the 
island, had seen this bird on several occasions, but both he and his keeper 
failed to obtain it. When he returned south, word was left with the 
keeper, that if he could get it ‘‘clean-killed” and would send it to Shrews- 
bury, he knew a collector who would be glad of it. I was much pleased 
shortly afterwards to find that the bird had arrived in a most beautiful 
state of preservation, and was nearly as white a specimen as I have ever 
seen. ‘These birds have been so numerous of late in “the North” that 
this additional capture is not very remarkable. Still, as I believe this is 
the first recorded instance of its occurring in the Lewes, a notice of it may 
be interesting.—Joun Rocke (Clungunford House, Shropshire). 
OrniTHoLocicaL Notes From THE West or Enextanp.—Mr. Hayden, 
of Fordingbridge, in the New Forest, informs me that an example of the 
Red-legged Hobby was killed close to that place in December last. It is 
singular that several birds which are only summer visitants to the South of 
Kurope should from time to time be obtained in this kingdom in late 
autumn or mid-winter, Another instance of the Red-legged Falcon’s having 
been procured in England in the winter time is mentioned in Dr. Bull- 
more’s ‘Cornish Fauna.’ This specimen was shot near Falmouth in the 
month of February. A Peregrine Falcon was killed at Bagborough 
during the severe north-westerly gale which swept across Taunton 
Dene on the night of the 19th February last. Many trees were blown 
over, and by the side of a fine elm was picked up the crushed body 
of an old tiercel which had been roosting in the tree, and had perished 
with it—a singular death for a noble Falcon. The first “cold snap” 
(as the Americans say) brought Hawfinches into this village; on most 
days I see one on my lawn feeding on the red berries which strew 
the ground under some whitethorns. The Acts for the Preservation of 
Birds include several which are only rare visitors to this country, and only 
to be distinguished by experienced ornithologists, which might justly be 
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