1390 THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
LITTLE OWL. 
Much discussion has taken place as to the character of this 
(comparatively ) new-comer to this country, whether it is or is not 
guilty of destroying young game-birds, and numbers of the pel- 
lets which it throws up have been collected and examined with a 
view to determining this point. 
Dr. W. E. Collinge+® carried out an exhaustive investigation 
of 267 pellets of this bird, and of the contents of 194 stomachs, 
and gives a list showing the great variety of its food. The in- 
cluded remains were identified as under :— 
ANNELIDS. 
’ Various earthworms 
WooD-LICE. 
Ontscus asellus 
Porcellio scaber 
MyYRIOPOD. 
Polydesmus, sp. 
INSECTS. 
Earwig 
Unidentified larve 
Carabus violaceus 
- Harpalus, sp. 
Pterostichus madidus 
Pterostichus, sp. 
Ocypus olens 
Philonthus, sp. 
Silpha opaca 
Aphodius fimetarius 
Aphodius, sp. 
Géotrupes stercorarius 
Rhizotrogus solstitialis 
Melolontha vulgaris 
Phyllopertha horticola 
Elater, sp. 
Athous niger 
Athous, sp. 
Agniotes sputator 
Agriotes obscurus 
Agriotes lineatus 
Apion, sp. 
Otiorhynchus pictpes 
Otiorkynchus tenebricosus 
Otiorhynchus sulcaius 
Sttones, sp. 
Ceuthorhynchus, sp 
Hylotius abietis 
Scolyius, sp. 
Hylesinus fraxint 
Hepialus lupulinus 
Hybernia defoliaria 
Chetmatohia brumata 
Mamestra brassicae 
Agrotis segetum 
Agrotis exclamationis 
Triphaena pronuba 
Tortrix viridana 
Tipula oleracea 
Tipula paludosa 
Pachyrhina maculosa 
Nematus, sp. 
AMPHIBIAN. 
Frog 
Short-tailed Field Vole 
Bank Vole 
Brown Rat 
House Mouse 
Long-tailed Field Mouse 
Common Shrew 
" Mole 
Also a little vegetable matter, such 
as grass, leaf fragments, and 
seeds of weeds 
45 Journ. of the Ministry of Agriculture, March 1922, p. 1133. 
