BIRDS. 41 



152. Asio accipitrinus {PalL). Short-eared Owl. 



Winter visitant, generally distributed, common, arrives from 

 the north in October and November. Occasionally it 

 remains to breed, having nested in several localities in 

 Cleveland, near Scarborough, on Thorne Waste, and once 

 near Otley. 



153- Syrnium aluco (X.). Tawny Owl. 



Resident, generally distributed, and fairly numerous in well- 

 wooded localities, excepting those of the manufacturing 

 districts, where it is local. The commonest Yorkshire owl. 



154. Nyctea scandiaca {L.). Snowy Owl. 



Accidental visitant from Northern Europe and America, of 

 extremely rare occurrence. 



Barlow Moor, near Selby, one shot, Feb. 13, 1837, and 

 exhibited at the Zoological Society in the same year 

 (Clapham, MS.). Mr. Clapham tells me that the state- 

 ment in Morris' British Birds (i. 195) — that this bird was 

 accompanied by another of the same species — is incorrect. 

 The specimen is now in the Leeds Museum. 



There is evidence to show that this species has probably 

 occurred on three other occasions in the county — at Scar- 

 borough and Filey about thirty years ago, at Flamborough 

 in October, 1865, and again at Scarborough in Dec, 1879 

 (See Birds of Yorkshire, pp. 55, 56). 



155. Surnia ulula Z. Hawk Owl. 



156. Surnia funerea L. American Hawk Owl. 



157. Nyctala tengmalmi {Gjn). Tengmalm's Owl. 



Accidental visitant from Northern Europe, of extremely rare 

 occurrence. 



Sleights, near Whitby, one about 1840, formerly in the Whitby 

 Museum (Stephenson, MS.). 



Hunmanby, one shot about 1847 (B. R. Morris, Zool., 1849. 

 p. 2649). 



Flamborough, one caught October i, 1863 (Boulton, Zool., 

 1864, p. 9020); in the collection of Mr. John Stevenson, 

 of Beverley. 



