OWLS. 89 



One shot on the Mersey, June 1843 : formerly in Maccles- 

 field Museum, but sold with other birds by auction at 

 Stevens's on the 14th June, 1861, realizing £9 10s. See 

 ' The Field,' 22nd June, 1861. 



EED-SHOTJLDEEED BUZZAKD. Buteo Uneatus (Gme- 

 lin). 



Hab. North America, east of the Eocky Mountains, from 

 Texas to Northern Canada. 



One, Kingussie, Inverness, 26th Feb. 1863 : Newcome, 

 The Ibis, 1865, p. 549 ; Gray, Birds of the West of Scot- 

 land, p. 49. 



Fam. STEIGID^. 



SNOWY OWL. Nyctea nivea (Daudin). 



Hab. North America, Northern Europe, and Asia, as far 

 eastward as Amoorland. 



One, Shetland, spring 1812 : Edmonstone, Trans. Wern. Soc. 



Edinb. 1822. 

 One, Unst, Shetland, Sept. 1813 : Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 



i. p. 135. 

 One, Felbrigg, Norfolk, 1st April, 1814 : Hunt, Brit. Orn. 



(1815). 

 One, Gunton, Norfolk, Jan. 1820 : Hunt, in Stacey's Hist. 



Norf. (1829). 

 Two, Eothbury, Northumberland, Jan. 1823 : Selby, lUustr. 



Brit. Orn. i. p. 96. 

 One, Inchigeela, 1827 : Harvey, Fauna of Cork, p. 5. 

 Several in Ireland : Thompson, Nat. Hist. Irel. (Birds), i. 



p. 95. 

 One, Sanday, Orkney, April 1835 : Neill, Mag. Nat. Hist. 



viii. p. 508. 



