284 BUBONID.E. 



inner lining of the quills, which are dark brown below, notched 

 with white on the inner web, these markings not visible on the first 

 two primaries, and only feebly developed on the third ; bill yellowish 

 horn-colour, brown at base and on the lower mandible ; toes appa- 

 rently yellowish flesh-colour in life. Total length 8-5 inches, wing 

 6-3, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-1. {Mus. Noi-vic.) 

 Hab. Columbia. 



17. NYCTALA*. ^yp^ 



Nyctala, Brehm, Ms, 1828, p. 1271 N. tengmalmi. 



jEgoHus, Katip, Natiirl. Syst. p. 34 (1829) N. tengmalmi. 



Scotophilus, ISivains. Classif. B. ii. p. 217 (1837) . . N. tengmalmi. 



Range. The northern and central portions of Europe and North 

 America. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Larger : entire upper surface mottled with white 



bars; forehead spotted with white ; tail-feathers 



with five white bars tengmabni, p. 284. 



b. Smaller: upper surfiice for the most part uniform; 



forehead with uaiTow streaks of white ; tail- 

 feathers with three white bars acadica, p. 287. 



1. Nyctala tengmalmi. 



Strix tengmalmi, Gm. S. JV. i. p. 291 ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 94; 



Namn. Voy. Deidschl. i. p. 500, Taf. 48. figs. 2, 3 ; Rous, Om. Prov. 



pi. 53 bis ; Vteill. et Oud. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 23 ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, 



pi. .38; Siv. ^- Rich. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. ,94, pi. 32; Aud. 



B. Am. pi. ccclxxx. ; id. Om. Bioyr. iv. p. 59& ; Schl. u. Susem. 



Voy. Eur. Taf. 48 ; Sundev. Sv. Foy'l. p. ISG, pi. xxv. fig. 3. 

 Strix dasypus, Bechst. Natury. Deutschl. ii. p. 972 ; JFo^ ^- Meyer, 



Voy. Deutschl. pi. to p. 51. 

 Athene tengmalmi, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 771. 



Nyctale planiceps, Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 127, et Voy. Deutschl. p. 113. 

 Nyctale piuetorum, Brehn, ut supra. 

 Nyctale abietum, Brehm, ut supra. 

 .^golius teugmalmi, Kaup, Natib-l. Syst. p. 34. 

 Noctua tengmalmi, Cuvier, Reyn. An. 1829, i. p. 345; Gould, B. 



Eur. i. pi. 49 ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 14G ; Hewits. Eyys Br. B. i. 



p. 66, pi. xix. 

 Ulula tengmalmi, Bp. Oss. Reyn. An. Cuv. p. 53 ; Macyill. Hist. Br. 



B. iii. p. 445. 

 Syrnium tengmalmi, Eytmi, Hist. Rarer Br. B. p. 90. 

 Scotophilus tengmalmi, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 217. 

 Nyctala tengmalmi, Bj). Cotnp. List B. Eur. Sf H. Am. p. 7 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 40, pi. 14. fig. 7; Stn'ckl. Om. Si/n. p. 175; Neivt. 



Ooth. Wolley. p. 165; Deyl. Sf Gerbe, Om. Eur. i. p. 125; Gould, 



B. Gt. Br. i. pi. xxxvi. ; Dall Sf Bann. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. p. 273 ; 



Borggr. Voyelf. Norddeutschl. p. 63 ; Nexot. ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. 



* On the curiovis asymmetry of the ear-bones in this genus, Mr. Collctt's 

 paper should be consulted (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 739). 



