146 STRIGID A. 
RA PTORES. STRIGIDE. 
THE HAWK OWL. 
Surma funerea. 
Noctua funerea, Canada Out, JeNywNs, Brit. Vert. p. 526. 
Surnia “9 Hawk Oul, Goutp, Birds of Europe, pt. x. 
Stria 33 Chouette caparacoch, TEmM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 86. 
An Owt of this species, preserved in the collection of 
Dr. Burkitt of Waterford, was taken on board a collier, a 
few miles off the coast of Cornwall, in March 1830, being 
at the time in so exhausted a state as to allow itself to be 
captured by the hand. On the arrival of the vessel at 
Waterford, whither she was bound, the bird was given to 
a friend of Dr. Burkitt, with whom it lived for a few 
