392 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM. 
Mr. Mearns in describing it (‘The Auk,’ 1892, p. 267) speaks of 
‘ the dwarfed size of this sub-species ’ of Kestrel, which in ray 
‘ Catalogue ’ I have placed next to T. australis , Rid. 
“A female of the little Mexican Owl, Micropallas graysoni, Ridg., 
Nov. 15th, 1895 ; and a Glaucidium hoskinsii, Brewst., taken at 
a height of 8200 feet at San Pedro, neither of them with any 
collector’s name, but received through Mr. C. K. Worthen, the 
Natural History agent, and with original tickets, add two more to 
our list of American sub-species of Owls. 
“An adult male Burrowing Owl ( Pholeoptynx ( Speotyto ) rostrata ) 
(Townsend) from Clarion Island, Lower California, where it was 
discovered by the U. S. Scientific Expedition “ Albatross,” in 1889, 
is labelled May 25th, 1897, No. 1307, and is acceptable as an 
insular sub-species, which will stand or fall according to the deter- 
mination of future naturalists, the more advanced of whom break 
up Pholeoptynx cunicularia into ten geographical sub-species, 
instead of two as was the case in 1875. 
“Nmox ocellata, H. & J. (of which we had only one before which 
came from Sir J. Grey), obtained on Savu Island, between Elores 
and Timur, in August 1896, by Mr. Everett, is probably a rare bird 
which may not turn up again for some time. From the same 
successful collector, whose discoveries do him so much credit, we 
have a male Scops albiventris, Sharpe, shot on the island of Lombok 
in the Java Sea. It is figured on plate viii. of vol. ii., B. M. Cat. 
of Striges, and was by mistake omitted from my catalogue, its 
claims being now also better understood. 
“Two eggs of the New Zealand Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux 
al bifacies , obtained through Mr. F. Stalchsmith, agree with the 
cut in the ‘Transactions’ (vol. vi. p. 158), and are probably to be 
relied on as genuine, and may one day (if Sceloglaux becomes 
extinct) be looked upon as among our greatest rarities.” 
One fish which has been added to the collection during the past 
year is worthy of note from the circumstances connected with its 
origin. It is many years since the Salmon frequented the river 
Yare, such few as have at long intervals been met with have 
evidently been carried up the river by floods, and have been found 
much out of condition in altogether unnatural localities ; but the 
specimen in question was seen by Mr. G. F. Buxton in the river 
Tas, above Stoke Holy Cross Mill, and captured by him with a fly 
