216 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



said gunner has more nerve when working a gun than he displayed on 

 finding the little bird, being afraid to catch it, as, he said, 'it glow'red 

 at him.' It was caught by a man of the Forty-second, and lived in my 

 room for several days, getting quite tame. At night it always became 

 restless, and finally killed itself against the wires of the cage. Mr. Harry 

 Tucker saw another some short time afterwards, in a cave on the south 

 shore." 



Sub-family NYCTEININ^. 



Genus Nyctea, Steph. 



75. Nyctea scandiaca., (Linn.) Newton. Snowy Owl. 



Strix scandiaca, Linu. 



Nyctea scandiaca, Newt., Dress. 



Nyctea scandiaca, xav arctica, Ridg., B. B. & R. 



Strix nyctea, Linn., Briss., Briinn., Foret., Gra., Lath., Daud., Vieil., Pall., 



Wile., Bp., Temm., Xutt., And., &c. 

 Noctiia nyctea, Cnv., Boie., Less., Brehm., Sclil. 



Surnia nyctea, Selby, Gould, Jard., Keys. & Bias., And., Gir., Putn., Kaup. 

 Syrnia nyctea, Macgil., Jard., Watt. 

 Strix nirea. Thumb., Daud. 

 Nociua nivea, Brehm. 



Nyctea nivea. Gray, Bp., Cass., Brewer, Bd., and many later authors. 

 Strix hubo, var. albus, Daud. 

 Strix Candida, Lath. 

 Nyctia Candida, Sw. 

 Strix erminea, Shaw. 



Total length, 24 to 27 inches; wing, 16 to 17 ; tail, 10. 



J5a5. — Northern regions of both continents, migrating southward in 

 winter. Kesident in Canada, Bermuda, South Carolina, Kentucky. 

 (Baird.) 



Colonel Wedderburn observes (Nat. in B., p. 25) : Lieutenant Fayrer, 

 royal navy, shot two specimens at Boss's Cove in the autumn of 1843. 

 Another, a fine female specimen, was shot by a person named Llewellyn, 

 at Ireland Island, on the 29th November, 1853. This bird was only 

 wounded, and when examined by Mr. Hurdis, on the 13th December 

 following, appeared lively and well. When being fed, it frequently 

 erected a little tuft of feathers on each side of the head, so as to resem- 

 ble small horns. Two frequented the islands in the autumn of 1875 ; 

 one of these was shot by Lieutenant Tallents, Twentieth Regiment, the 

 other escaped, though it remained two months or more. 



