of the District of MoyitreaL 75 



3rd and 6th equal ; 2nd and Yth equal ; 1st shorter than the 

 secondaries ; barbs of the outer vanes of 1st and 2nd primaries 

 revolute ; barbs of the outer vanes of 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th revo- 

 lute at their tips ; inner vanes of 2nd and 3rd, and outer vanes of 

 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th notched ; tail rounded. Length 24 

 inches ; alar expanse 42 inches. The female and young scarcely 

 differ from the male. 



In Richardson's description of the comparative lengths of the 

 primaries of this bird, there appears to me to be an error. I have 

 verified mine in several specimens, and find it differing substan- 

 tially from his. And so far from the toes being "only half 

 covered with feathers," in all the specimens that I have seen, they 

 are distinctly covered to the last joint, the feathers thence pro- 

 truding over the talons, and but 4 transverse scales appearing 

 beyond this line, instead of 7 as mentioned by our author. I am 

 inclined to the belief, that the remarks made by him at the end 

 of his description of this bird in his Fauna, must have been de- 

 rived from an imperfect specimen. 



S. Tengmalmi. Tengmalm's owl. 

 S. Passerina ? "Wilson I 



v.s.p. Upper and lower mandibles black, with the ridge of 

 the former white ; claws black ; irides yellow ; eggs 2, white. 



Dorsal aspect. Facial disk, black in front of and below the 

 orbits ; below and posteriorly white, bordered by blackish grey, 

 bounded by a line of deep velvety brown, mottled with white, 

 and meeting on the anterior part of the throat, where the white 

 predominates, and thence continued upwards to the chin, separated 

 by a msesial line of brown, and downwards for a little distance to 

 the breast ; crown and occiput liver brown, with white spots — 

 these latter most numerous on the crown, and larger and more 

 distinct on the occiput and nape of neck. The dorsal region liver 

 brown, variegated with white spots, which are largest on the 

 scapulars, on some of which a pair may be seen, but most gener- 

 ally, a single one is met with on the outer vane, of a round shape. 

 Primaries marked by 5 rounded white spots on their outer vanes, 

 and 5 correspondent linear bars on the inner ones ; bars broad- 

 est on the secondaries ; tail with 5 imperfect white bars, made 

 up of oval spots on their outer, and of lines on their inner vanes. 



Ventral aspect. Below the throat the prevailing tint is liver 

 brown, mixed with nearly an equal quantity of white — the former 

 colour predominating on the sides, and the latter on the middle 



