SNOWY OWL—TENGMALMS OWL. 
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In the New Forest, as might be expected, this owl is 
common. Wise says that he has often heard a pair calling 
to each other, near Stoney Cross, at least two miles apart, 
and that he has frequently seen it mobbed by thrushes and 
blackbirds in the day-time, and taking refuge in large 
ivy-bushes. 
In the Isle of Wight, Mr. Meade- Waldo ' says it is very 
scarce, and others of our correspondents agree with him ; 
Dr. Cowper having met with it in the " Great Wood Copse," 
near Shanklin^ ; Mr. Poole has seen it once near the same 
town, and Wadham, of Newport, has only had one 
specimen through his hands in the last ten years. 
Genus — Nyctea. 
122. Nyctea scandiaca. Snowy Owl. 
A very rare accidental visitor. 
One in the Hart Museum at Christchurch, shot in 
Burley Wood, in the New Forest, in the winter of 1 848, 
came from the collection of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley. 
A native of the circumpolar regions. 
[Gen US— iVJ^/^^/^. 
Nyctala tengmalmi, Tengmalm s Owl. 
One is said to have been procured at Freshwater, in 
the Isle of Wight, in 1883,2 but we do not think the 
evidence sufficient.] 
^ "Victoria History of Hants." = "Hants Court Guide." 
3 Hadfield. " Zoologist." January, 1884. 
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