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examples having been shot in Baden in December. According to Kjserbolling it occasionally 

 occurs as a rare straggler in Denmark. Mr. Poulsen observed it on Als ; Mr. Steenberg records 

 the occurrence of two at Helsingcer ; and Mr. Boiling had a specimen from Fredriksburg. Bonnez 

 found it at Herlufsholms wood in Seeland. According to Boie it occurs annually in Western 

 Holstein, in the months of October and November. Mr. Hage has often shot it on Moen. 



Baron de Selys-Longchamps refers to one example as having been observed by M. Putzeys 

 at Arlon, and others near Metz by M. Hollandre; it is also said by Godron to be resident in the 

 Vosges, though rare, and usually seen during migration. Degland and Gerbe include it in their 

 work as found in all the large forests of France ; but in Southern France it is accidental, having 

 occurred but once or twice in the department of Var ; it inhabits the Alps, Savoy, Dauphine, and 

 the Hautes- and Basses-Alpes. Mr. Howard Saunders writes to us that " there is a specimen of 

 this Owl, obtained near Bagneres de Bigorre, French Pyrenees, in the collection of the Bev. 

 W. Lawson, vicar of Lynton, North Devon. This is the only example from that district which 

 I have actually examined ; but when at Perpignan, Dr. Louis Companyo assured me that it was 

 not uncommon in the higher regions, descending to the olive-plantations in winter." We can 

 find no record of its having occurred in Spain or Portugal, though it may straggle thither. 

 Dr. A. Girtanner informs us that it is to be met with in the forests on or near the mountains of 

 Switzerland; and according to Bailly it is found in the more wooded cantons of Switzerland, 

 especially Valais and the Vaudois side of the Jura, and is not rare in Savoy, according to 

 locality, and remains there throughout the year. It is more especially found in the larch- and 

 pine-woods near Albertville, and throughout the Tarentaise, Maurienne, and Chamounix ; in 

 other words, it is more especially distributed in the northern part of the country. In many parts 

 it takes the place of the Little Owl, which may be looked on as accidental as soon as one leaves 

 the inhabited parts and reaches the pine-forests. In Italy, according to Salvadori, this species 

 occurs occasionally in the northern districts, and specimens from Piedmont are in the Turin and 

 other collections. It has not yet been recorded from Sicily or Sai-dinia. Lindermayer includes it in 

 his list of the birds of Greece as a rare visitor to the northern districts of that country ; and Lord 

 Lilford saw the skin of one at Corfu, which he was assured had been shot on the island. As regards 

 its range in Austria, Count von Tschusi Schmidthofen kindly informs us that it is found every- 

 where in the mountain-forests of Austria. He himself obtained specimens from the Isergebirge, 

 and saw in the collection of the forester Smetacek two specimens — one from Siebengriinden, and 

 the other shot in 1867 at the Rennerbaude. In the Biesengebirge it is called Piqjjjereule, and 

 is there well known, and does not appear to be rare. According to Purkinje it is common in the 

 pine-woods at Weisswasser ; and Lokay obtained it on three occasions in the neighbourhood of 

 Prague (Fritsch, Cab. Journ. 1871, p. 185). Von Tschusi also saw a specimen in the Schwarz- 

 enberg collection at Wohrad, obtained in the Bohmerwald. Palliardi (Vog. Bohm. p. 14) ob- 

 tained a pair which were shot near Franzensbad in the autumn of 1847. In Northern Austria 

 it has been procured at Lasenburg ; and a specimen obtained there is in the Imperial Museum at 

 Vienna, as also one procured near the town of Vienna. In Eastern Austria it is rare at Hinter- 

 berger, has been once obtained at Lintz, and on several occasions specimens have been shot at 

 Kremsmunster. In the mountainous parts of Styria it is generally distributed, and breeds there, 

 especially near Mariahof, where the Bev. Mr. Hanf has obtained numerous specimens, and also 



