LONG-EARED OWL—SHORT-EARED OWL. 129 
Wolmer, which now offers a congenial haunt, was not 
planted in White's time. 
In the Isle of Wight, Bury says it has been known 
to breed at Newchurch, but is not of frequent occurrence. ' 
Rogers only knew of one specimen in many years, and 
More of one other. 
Mr. Wadham now considers it common, at any rate 
throughout the central and eastern parts of the island, 
and has often found both the eggs and young. One 
nestling he brought up by hand and kept as a pet for 
eight years. 
120. Asio brachyotus. Short-eared Owl. 
Woodcock Owl. 
A winter visitor to all parts of the county and the Isle 
of Wight, rarely remaining to nest. 
This being a bird of the open country is naturally 
most often met with either in our largest inland fields, 
the moorlands of the New Forest, or the marshes of 
the coast. 
Partridge shooters sometimes disturb several together, 
which appear to have but lately arrived. 
It has long been known that pairs occasionally re- 
mained to nest in the New Forest — probably in those 
years when ground vermin is specially abundant. 
Mr. Corbin had a specimen brought him by a keeper 
in May, 1885. " He had previously informed me," he 
says, " that there was at least one pair, if not more, of a 
dark coloured owl, w^hich frequented the extensive heaths 
* " Zoologist." 1844. 
