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the United States in winter, but found generally on the western side 

 of the continent. 



a. Ad. St. North America. Admiral Sir George Back [P.]. 



b. Ad. St. North America. Hudson's Bay Company [P.], 



c. Ad. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.l. 



d. Juv. sk. British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.J. 



e. Skeleton. North America. 



5. Syrnitun lapponicum. 



Strix lapponica, Hetz. Faun. Suec. p. 79 ; Temm. Man. (TOrn. i. p. 81 ; 



Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 33 ; Ti/zenh. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1831, 



p. 576 ; Srhl. u. Sim'm. Vor/. Eur. Taf. 40 ; Sundev. So. For/l. p. 184, 



pi. xxiv. fig. 1 ; Naum. Vor/. Deutschl. Kachtrag, Taf. 349. 

 Strix fuliginosa, Shav, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 24.5. 

 Strix bariiata. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 318 ; Radde, Reis. Sihir. 



p. 12L 

 Strix microphthalmos, Tyzenli. Orn. Poiv. i. p. 86, frontisp. 

 Ulula lapponica, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 113; Degl. ^ Gerbe, Orn. 



Fur. i. p. 131. 

 Sm-nia lapponica, Gmdd, B. Eur. i. pi. 42. 

 Syrnium ciuereum, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. and N. Am. p. 6 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 39 ; Fritsch, Viig. Eur. tab. 12. fig. 6. 

 Ulula barbata, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xxxii ; Borggr. Vogelf. 



Norddeutsehl. p. 62. 

 Svrnium microphthalmum, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 39. 

 SVmium lapponicum, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 188 ; Nezvt. Ooth. Wolley. 

 'p. 170; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 48 ; Taczan. Journ. f. Orn. 1873, 



p. .303. 

 Ulula crnerea, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 9. 

 Syrnium cinereum, var. lapponicum, Ridgw. K.-A. Birds, iii. p. 29 ; 



Coiws, B. N. TF. p. 308. 



Adult. General colour above ashy brown, tbe feathers varied with 

 white on both webs in the shape of bars or vermiculations, causing 

 an indistinctly streaked appearance to the whole of the upper surface, 

 the centres of the dorsal feathers being longitudinally brown ; head 

 and neck rather lighter than the back, the feathers being for the most 

 part whitish, tinged with fulvous near the base, broadly streaked 

 down the centre and barred with brown ; scapulars whiter than the 

 rest of the upper surface, being almost entirely white on the outer 

 web with a few bars of brown ; wing-coverts darker than the back, 

 brown, mottled with a few irregular whitish markings here and 

 there, the greater series with large oval spots of white on the outer 

 web ; primary-coverts dark brown, barred across with ashy brown ; 

 quills dark brown, the primaries barred with whity brown, washed 

 with fulvous on the inner web, and all the light bars slightly mot- 

 tled with zigzag vermiculations of brown ; the secondaries also 

 barred across with lighter brown, inclining slightly to whitish on the 

 outer web, the innermost secondaries exactly like the back ; tail 

 ashy brown, darker brown at tip, and crossed with five lighter bands, 

 none of them plainly distinguishable, and for the most part consisring 

 only of broad whitish lines of irregular shape, the interspaces also 

 mottled with whitish, especially on tlie inner web ; facial aspect 



