NYCTALE TENGMALMI. 1G5 



NYCTALE TENGMALMI (Gmelin). 

 TENGMALM'S OWL. 

 § 536. i^o^^r.— Nalima, East Bothnia. 1856. 



0. W. tab. ix. fig. 3, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1857, p. 57. 



Brought by Johan Kenta's wife from Nalima, 15th June; taken 

 long before. The bird had been turned out of its tylla * by a Sotka 

 (Golden-eye). Doubtless Tengmalm's Owl. 



[One of these eggs was sent by Mr. VVolley for exhibition at the Meeting 

 of the Zoological Society of London, 24th March, 1857.] 



§ 537. Four. — Helluntai-lauantai, Kyro, Kemi Lappmark. 30 

 May, 1857. "Bird killed." 



0. W. tab, ix. figs. 1, 2. 



Received by myself in Yli-Kyro, on 14th June, from Johan Johan- 

 son, of Ala-KjTo, who said they were found as above in a tylla. As 

 to the species there can be no reasonable doubt ; for with them were 

 the foot and wing of the bird. 



\ 538. Three. — Kiitkesuando, East Bothnia. 1858. 



O. W. tab. ix. fig. 4. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 25th May. Found in a Duck's nest- 

 box. 



1 [It is the practice in Lapland to set up in convenient places nest-boxes for the 

 Golden-eye {^Clangula glaudon) to breed in. These boxes are called in the Muoni- 

 oniska district by the names tylla or uu. They consist of hollowed-out logs of 

 wood, fi-om three to five feet in length, and closed at either end. In the side a 

 hole is cut to admit the birds. Besides the Golden-eye, the Goosander (Mergus 

 merganser) and the Smew (3fergtis albellus) avail themselves of the accommodation 

 thus aftbrded. But two species of Owls do the like, and their tenancy is not un- 

 naturally resented as an intrusion by the people who have been at the trouble of 

 making ready the lodgings, as witness the statement of Linnaeus (' Lachesis Lap- 

 ponica,^ i. p. 93). — Ed.] 



