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is represented by rufous-tinted examples from Funen 
and Heligoland. Like specimens have also occurred 
in this county, doubtless migrants from Scandinavia. 
There are other members of the genus Strix, among 
which may be mentioned S. delicatula, the Delicate 
Owl from Australia; a larger form, S. zove-hollanaie ; 
the Masked Owl from Australia; S. castanops, the 
Chestnut-faced Owl from Van Dieman’s Land; and 
S. arfakt, the Sooty Owl, a melanistic species from 
New Guinea. e/todilus soumagnet, a rare and little 
known Owl from Madagascar, is followed in the 
collection by three species from Borneo, India, and 
Ceylon, belonging to the genus PAotodilus, known 
from their colour as the Bay Owls, the last of this 
remarkable and widely-dispersed group. 
In the above brief and imperfect sketch of the 
fine collection of Birds of Prey, the writer’s object has 
been, by pointing out the more remarkable forms and 
the system of arrangement adopted—showing the 
connecting links between the various groups—to add 
to the interest with which the visitor cannot fail to 
regard the extensive series of beautifully-mounted 
specimens, many of them from very remote parts of 
the world, and some of great rarity ; but for scientific 
study the visitor must be referred to the unmounted 
collection to be found in the cabinets of 
The Skin Room, 
which is entered by a door between the two staircases 
leading up to the gallery. Here are to be seen, 
arranged in the drawers of the cabinets ranged 
round the wall and in the centre of the room, large 
numbers of skins in the most available form for close 
study, which will be found of invaluable help to the 
student. These are, of course, under the immediate 
