. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . OWLS 331 cording to A. G. More {Ibis, 1865, p. 16), it isreported to have nested in Orkney, Shetland, andthe Hebrides. As to this, however, see the re-marks of Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown,Fauna of Orkney, p. 138, and Messrs. Evansand Buckley, Fauna of Shetland, p. 108. For some interesting notes on the migration ofthe Snow Owl as observed between Quebec andBelfast, see Aim. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 107. A Snow Owl which
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . OWLS 331 cording to A. G. More {Ibis, 1865, p. 16), it isreported to have nested in Orkney, Shetland, andthe Hebrides. As to this, however, see the re-marks of Messrs. Buckley and Harvie-Brown,Fauna of Orkney, p. 138, and Messrs. Evansand Buckley, Fauna of Shetland, p. 108. For some interesting notes on the migration ofthe Snow Owl as observed between Quebec andBelfast, see Aim. Nat. Hist., vol. iii. p. 107. A Snow Owl which had carried off a nestlingPeregrine was pursued by the parent falcon, over-taken, and killed at a single stoop. It was pickedup by an eye-witness. Richardson, Journal inRuperts Land, vol. i. p. 206. A pair of Snow Owls brought from Norway in1891 nested in 1898, and reared two young ones incaptivity (W. H. St. Quintin, Avicultural Magazine,Sept. 1898, p. 198). Some years previously a pairbred in an aviary of Mr. Edward Fountain of Easton,Norfolk. See Ibis, 1859, p. 273, and 1875, p. 517. HAWK OWL. Surnia funerea (JAnnddns). Length, 155in.; wing, 9*5 in.; tarsus, 1
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