22 A CATALOGUE OF THE BIHDS 



legs and thighs; the face is also tinged with the same colour, 

 and the upper parts have the tawny richer than usual. 



17. OTUS, G. Cuvier. 



24. Shoet-eaeed Owl. 0. beachyotus, {Forster.) 



Strix hrachyotus, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I., 61. 

 Asio accipitrinus, Yarrell, Hist, Brit. Birds, Ed. 4,' I., 163. 



This is chiefly an autumn migrant, arriving on our coast in 

 considerahle numbers with the Woodcocks ; but as it occasionally 

 breeds in the district, it must rank as a resident. Late one 

 autumn I sprung, in a rough stubble field, near Cleadon, four 

 or five specimens. They had undoubtedly just arrived and were 

 feeding on mice, which appeared to abound in the field. Up- 

 wards of forty years ago it bred on the moors at a place called 

 Clint Burn, nine or ten miles above Bellingham. Two or three 

 nests were taken there in consecutive years by the late Mr. L. 

 J. Lovat, keeper at Hesleyside. Mr. Douglas also took the eggs 

 of this species on the same moors, near Ealstone, about the same 

 time. The late Mr. E. E. Wingate picked up a young indivi- 

 dual of the Short-eared Owl, near Brampton, Cumberland. 



Mr. Isaac Clark informs me that the gamekeeper, at Longhirst, 

 took a nest of this species, with three eggs, in 1872. 



25. LoNa-EAEED Owl. 0. vulgaris, Fleming. 



Strix ofiis, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Biixls, Ed. 1847, I., 66. 

 Asio „ Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Bii-ds, Ed. 4, I., 158. 



A resident. Common in wooded districts. Becoming less 

 abundant every year, being stigmatised as " vermin P^ 



18. BUBO, 0. Cuiner. 



26. Eagle Oavl. Bubo maximus, Fleming. 



Strix lulo, Bewick, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 1847, I. 64. 

 JJuho ignavus, Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, Ed. 4, I., 168, 



1 am obligingly informed by Mr. James Sutton, of Durham, 

 who is a carefid observer, and has an extensive collection of 



