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toes were pale yellow, but deeper in shade than during the first 
year ; eyes deep lemon-yellow; the eyes of the young birds were 
leaden-grey ; legs and toes buffy-white. In the stomach of the 
female parent I found the bills and other bones of two Green- 
finches, which I was enabled to identify by some feathers which 
I rinsed and dried. The nest, compactly built of sticks, was 
situated in one of the upper branches and close to the trunk of a 
Scotch fir. The gamekeeper seemed rather anxious that this 
pair of birds should be killed, as the previous day they had been 
watched passing backwards and forwards to his coops, from 
which he found they had taken just twenty young pheasants, the 
male bird being particularly active in this performance. Remains 
of some of the young birds were found in the crops of the 
nestling hawks, as well as in a few cast-off pellets beneath 
their nest. 
Foop or Owns. — On dissecting an adult female Short-eared 
Owl, killed at Caister, near Norwich, on January Ist, 1884, 
I found in the stomach the remains of a half-grown brown rat 
and an adult field-mouse, including the skulls and leg-bones of 
each. On the 8th of the same month the stomach of another 
Tawny Owl contained the remains of a sparrow. 
Variety or Barn Own.—On November 13th, 1883, a beautiful 
dark variety of the Barn Owl, a female, was shot near Norwich 
and brought tome. The whole of the under surface of its plumage 
was of a rich buff instead of the ordinary white; the face white ; 
the back and upper parts of the plumage were also many shades 
darker than in the usual type. I recorded a similar variety in 
‘The Zoologist’ for 1880, p. 49. Birds of this variety of Strix 
flammea are evidently migrants. The two just mentioned and 
three others I have had in my possession all occurred earlier or 
later in the autumn. 
Aupino Missex Turusa.—An albino immature bird of this 
species was killed on May 26th, 1884, at Leiston, near Sax- 
mundham, and forwarded to me. The plumage was entirely 
white, the usual round spots of the breast-feathers being indicated 
by the faintest tints, reminding one of the water-marks in note- 
paper. It had pink eyes, and the bill and legs were yellowish 
white. When skinned I found a thread-worm (Filaria) of five 
inches in length protruding from a wound in its breast, and on 
dissection obtained a few smaller ones, as well as a tape-worm 
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