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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Ge^\}^— Scops. 
123. Scops giu. Scops Owl. 
A rare occasional visitor. 
The Hart collection contains a specimen obtained at 
Wilverley Lodge in July, 1866, and another killed near 
Holmsley on October 29th, 1884. 
Mr. Walter Jeffery, taxidermist, of Gosport, a relative of 
Mr. William Jeffery, the well-known naturalist of Ratham, 
in Sussex, had a female brought to his house on June 
loth, 1884, which had apparently only just reached our 
shores. The following particulars were kindly supplied 
by Mr. Jeffery and Mr. W. T. Pearce, of the Portsmouth 
Natural History Society. The bird was picked up on 
the shore at Stokes Bay by some boys who had been 
bathing ; it appeared to be quite exhausted, and died in 
their hands, but it was still warm when Mrs. Jeffery bought 
it of them. It was in good plumage, but very emaciated, 
weighing barely two ounces, and contained only the 
remains of a few beetles in its stomach. 
Its length was seven inches, expanse of wings one 
foot eight inches. Mr. Pearce possesses the sternum, and 
the skin is at Manchester. 
This occurrence was recorded at the time in the 
"Field" and "Land and Water." It will be observed 
that one of the New Forest specimens was obtained in 
the same year. 
There is another specimen in the Earl of Malmesbury's 
collection. 
