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ULULA TENGMALMI. TENGMALM^S HOOTING- 



OWL. 



Strix funerea. Linn. Fauna Suecica, p. 25. 



Strix Tengmalmi. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I- 291. 



Strix Tengmalmi. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 60. 



Chouette Tengmalm. Strix Tengmalmi. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 94. 



Tengmalm's Night-Owl. Noctua Tengmalmi. Selb. Illustr. 105. 



Noctua Tengmalmi. Tengmalm's Night-Owl. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 94. 



Strix Tengmalmi. Tengmalm's Owl. Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 94. 



Upper parts chocolate-brown^ spotted with white ; fail with Jive 

 rows of transversely elongated spots ; lower parts yellowish-white, 

 with longitudinal brown markings ; tarsi and toes covered icitk 

 downy feathers ; length about ten inches. 



This pretty little Owl, the Strix funerea of Linnaeus, Strix 

 passerina of many authors, and Strix Tengmalmi of Temminck, 

 has often been confounded with Syrnia passerina already de- 

 scribed, from which, however, it is easily distinguished by dif- 

 ferences in colour, inferiority of size, and especially by the dense 

 covering of feathers upon its toes, those organs in that species 

 being almost bare. The American bird described by Dr Richard- 

 son, Mr Audubon, and others under the same name, and con- 

 sidered identical by them, has lately by the Prince of Musi»- 

 nano been named Nyctale Richardsoni, and viewed as distinct 

 from his Nyctale Tengmalmi ; but as he has not given descrip- 

 tions, it is impossible to know whether this determination has 

 been founded on reason, or caused by caprice. On this sub- 

 ject I shall presently ofter some remarks, but in the meantime 

 proceed to describe the bird, of which however my specimens 

 are American. 



Male. — In form this species resembles the Brown Hootino-- 

 Owl, and the Passerine Day-Owl ; the head being very lar^e. 



