HAWK-OWL. 



SUKNIA FUNEREA (Linn.). 



Strix funerea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 133 (1766). 

 Strix nisoria, Naum. i. p. 427. 

 Syrnia funerea, Macg. iii. p. 404. 



Surnia funerea, Hewitson, i. p. 65 ; Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 183 ; 

 Dresser, v. p. 309. 



Chouette caparacoch, French; Habichtseide, German. 



The specimens of this bird that have occurred in the 

 British Islands have been few and far between. I quote 

 from Mr. Howard Saunders' recently published 'Manual ' 

 as to dates and localities : — One off the coast of Corn- 

 wall, March 1830. One near Yatton, in Somersetshire, 

 August 1837. One on the island of Unst, Shetlands, 

 in the winter of 1860-61. One near Glasgow, December 

 1863. One near Greenock, November 1868. One near 

 Amesbury, Wilts, for which no precise date is given. 

 I find that Mr. J. E. Harting, in his ' Handbook of 

 British Birds,' published in 1872, records two other 

 occurrences — one at Shelf, near Bradford, without date, 

 and another near Greenock, in December 1871. 



This Owl is an inhabitant of the pine-forests of 

 Northern Europe, Asia, and America, and as 1 know 



