314 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Hen Harrier.—Small birds of all kinds. Twenty lizards 
found in one specimen (Yarrell). 
Monracu’s Harrier.—Five lizards found in one specimen 
(Yarrell), 
Scors Earep Own.—Mr. W. Spence says, “It feeds wholly 
upon beetles, grasshoppers, and other insects” (Yarrell). Earwigs 
and larvee of various kinds (Stevenson). 
SHoRT-EARED Own.—January, mice; February, harvest-mice ; 
March, mice; April, crickets and field-mice; May, shrews and 
cockchaffers; June, beetles; July, field-mice and birds; August, 
field-mice and shrews ; September, field-mice and beetles (Florent 
Prevost); October, field-mice and beetles; November, mice and 
field-mice; December, mice, spiders and woodlice. Rats and 
bats (Yarrell). 
LoneG-FARED Own.—January, February and March, mice; 
April, cockchaffers ; May, cockchatfers, rats and squirrels; June, 
mealworms, beetles and shrews; July, mice, ground- and other 
beetles; August, mice and shrews; September, October and 
November, mice (Florent Prevost). Rats, moles, mice, and small 
birds (Yarrell). 
Barn Own.—January and February, mice; March, April, 
May and June, field-mice; July and August, mice; September 
and October, field-mice and shrews; November, mice and black 
rats; December, mice (Florent Prevost). Sparrows and Green- 
finches (Harting). Rats and mice; perch (Yarrell). One nest 
of Barn Owls was supplied with twenty fresh rats, all killed 
in one night. Other nests were supplied, some with rats 
only, some with mice only. One nest contained many bushels 
of the remains of rats, mice, voles and shrews, and a few 
wireworms. On examining more than thirty nests I found 
the remains of only one bird, a Blackbird, which appeared to 
have been used as food, besides the rats and mice and shrews. 
(F. Norgate.) 
Tawny Owx.—According to Dr. Altum, fifty-two pellets of 
Tawny Owl contained three Crossopus fodiens, one Crocidura 
araneus, ten Sorex vulgaris, eleven Talpa europea, one Mus 
decumanus, two M. musculus, six M. sylvaticus, two Arvicola 
amphibius, one A. glareolus, one A. agrestis, thirty-three A. 
arvalis, one Sciwrus vulgaris, one EHmberiza citrinella, eleven 
other small birds; fourteen Carabus granulatus, four Dytiscus 
