fi. SVRXIA. 131 



8ubsp. a. Surnia funerea. 



Little Hawk-Owl, Edward.% N. 11. Birds, pi. rd. 



Le Chat-huant de Canada, Jiriss. Oni. i. p. 518, pi. 87. fig. 2. 



Le Chat-huant de la Baye de Hudson, Briss. Orn. i. p. 520. 



Caparoch, Buff. Hid. Xat. Ois. i. p. 300. 



Strix funerea, Linn. S. N. i. p. 133 ; Werner, Atl. Rapace?, pi. 32. 



Strix caparacoch, P. L. 8. Midi. S. JV. Sitppl. p. 69. 



Strix hudsonia, Gm. S. X. i. p. 295 ; TFils. Am. Orn. vi. pi. 50. 



fig. 1. 

 Surnia canadensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 02. 

 Surnia borealis. Less. Traite, p. 100. 

 Suraia hudsonia, James, ed. Wil^. Am. Orn. i. p. 90 ; Brehm, Xaiim. 



1855, p. 208. 

 Surnia funerea, Bic/i. ^- Sw. Faun. Bor.-Am. Bird^, p. 92 ; Audiih. B. 



N. Am. pi. 378 ; id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 550 ; 2\ewt. ed. Yarr. Br. B. 



i. p. 183 ; Graij, B. Scotl. p. 04 ; Hartini/, Himdb. Brit. B. p. 91 ; 



Sharpe 8f Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xii. 

 Syrnia funerea, Jlacffi/L Brit. B. iii. p. 404. 

 Noctua funerea, Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 139. 

 Suruia ulula, Cass. Cat. Strif/idce Philad. Mus. p. 17 ; id. B. Calif. ^• 



Tex. p. 191 ; id. B. X. Am. p. 04; DaU ^- Bann. Tr. Chicago Acad. 



i. p. 274. 

 Surnia ulula, var. hudsonia, Coues, Key X. Am. B. p. 205 ; Eidgiv. 



B. X. Am. iii. p. 75 ; Coues, B. X. W. p. 312. 



Adult male. Above black, with somewhat of a purplish gloss on 

 the uape ; head blackish, thickly covered with large rounded spots 

 of white, the bases to the feathers being also M'hite ; hind neck and 

 wig whitish, broadly barred across with brown ; all the dorsal feathers 

 with concealed white bars, larger and more oval on the scapulars, 

 which are white on the outer edge, forming a longitudinal patch ; 

 wing-coverts brown, the least ones edged with whitish, the greater 

 series relieved ■with oval spots of white ; quills brown, baiTcd across 

 with lighter brown, these lighter bars indicated on the outer web by 

 a large oval spot of white, less distinct on the secondaries, some of 

 which are barred nearly across with white ; upper tail-coverts more 

 rufous than the back, and broadly barred and tipped with white ; 

 tail dark brown, with about nine white cross bands, including the 

 terminal one ; an indistinct ej'ebrow and sides of face whitish or 

 yellowish white, the lores with blackish bristles ; the cheeks silvery 

 ■white, the hindermost black at their extremity, merged in a broad 

 black band running down behind the ear-coverts ; a similar longi- 

 tudinal black line on either side of the hind neck ; throat white, as 

 also the fore neck, the chin obscured with blackish bristles, and the 

 centre of the throat dusky blackish ; the fore neck white, separated 

 from the throat by a band of dusky feathers ; rest of under surface 

 of body white, crossed ■with numerous tolerably broad bars of vinous 

 brown or rufous, the leg-feathers narrowly marked with the same, 

 the bars being broader on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 white, broadly bari'ed with dark brown, the greater series whitish 

 at base, ashy brown at tip, thus resembling the inner lining of the 

 wing, which is ashy brown, broadly barred with white on the inner 

 web ; bill yellow, inclining to horn-blue on the gape and lower 



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