0. SURNIA. 



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6. SURNIA. 



Type. 



Surnia, Dumh: Zool. Anal. p. 34 ( 180Gj S. ulula. 



Nycthierax, Sundev. Av. Mdh. Tent. p. 106 (1872) S. ulula. 



Tail of Surnia tdula (reduced). 



Range. The northern and central portions of the Palaearctic and 

 Xearctic regions. 



1. Surnia ulula. 



Sh-ix ulula, Linn. S. N. i. p. 13-3. 



C'houette a lougue queue de Siberie, Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 463. 



Strix nisoria. Wolf ^- Jlei/er, Vof/. Deutscld. fol. ii. p. 123 ; Meyer in 



Wolf ^- Meyer, Taschenh. i. p. 84 ; JS'aian. Voy. Deutschl. i. p. 427, 



pi. 42. fi^. 2 ; Sund. Si: Fay!, p. 192, p. xxv. fig. 5. 

 Surnia funerea, Dumeril, Zool. Anal. p. 34 ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. 



4" N. Am. p. 6 ; Gould, B. Eur. i. pi. 45 ; A'e//,5. ^- Bias. Wirb. Eur. 



p. xxxii ; Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 183 ; Ilewits. Eyys Br. B. i. p. 05, 



pi. xviii. fig. 1 ; Deyl. Hf- Gerhe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 117 ; Borygr. Voyelf, 



Deutschl. p. 64 ; Goidd, B. Gt. Br. i. pi. xxxv. 

 Strix uralensis, Shaic, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 277, pi. 85. 

 Strix doliata, Pall. Zooyr. Basso- As. i. p. 316. 

 Surnia uralensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 62. 

 Noctua nisoria, Cuvier, Reyne An. i. p. 344 (1829). 

 Surnia ulula, Bp. Cat. Met. Ucc. Eur. p. 22 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 33, 



pi. 12. tig. 1 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 36 ; Kaup, Confr.' Orn. 1852, p. 107; 



id. Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 214; Fritsch, Voy. Eur. tab. 11. fig. 5; Newt. 



Goth. Wolley. p. 167 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 39 ; Sharpe t^ Ih-esser, 



B. Eur. pt. xii. 

 Strix funerea, KjVerb. Orn. Dan. pi. vi. fig. o ; Midd. Sibir. JReis. 



p. 131 ; Schrenck, Reis.Amurl. p. 248; Radde, Reis. Sibir. p. 124. 

 Noctua ulula, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 42. 



Adult male. Above sepia-browii, everywhere strongly mottled with 

 white, the bases of the feathers all white, but showing less on the 

 back than the rest of the upper parts, though here the feathers are 

 broadly barred with white, the bases being more or less concealed ; 

 the scapulars externally pure white, forming a longitudinal patch ; 

 crown of head white, barred with dark brown, the bars more pre- 

 dominating and broader towards the nape, which is white varied 

 with a few shaft-lines and margins of brown ; on each side of the 

 hind neck a large black patch ; hind neck and wig white, rather 



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