STRIGIDE. 305 
THE HAWK-OWL. 
SURNIA FUNEREA (Linnzus). 
An example of this rare wanderer to Great Britain was taken in an 
exhausted state off the coast of Cornwall in March 1830; a second 
was shot near Yatton, in Somersetshire, while hawking for prey on a 
sunny afternoon in August 1847 ; a third on Unst, in the Shetland 
Islands, in the winter of 1860-61 ; a fourth near Glasgow in December, 
1863 ; and a fifth near Greenock in November 1868. Those of the 
above now available for critical examination belong to the North 
American form—distinguished by trinomialists in the United States 
as S. ulula caparoch—in which the dark transverse bands of the 
under parts are more ruddy than in the European, while the white 
on the upper parts is rather more pronounced ; and there can be 
little doubt that these birds had received aid from vessels bound for 
Bristol or the Clyde. An example of the European form was, 
however, obtained near Amesbury, Wilts, and identified by Dr. R. B. 
Sharpe (P. Z. S., 1876, p. 334); while the Shetland bird (destroyed 
by moth) was also, judging by the description, from the Old World. 
The Hawk-Owl does not migrate to any extent, and neither of the 
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