NYCTEA. SCOTS. 325 



1. Muttia, 22nd .Tiin. Hume Coll. 



3. Muttia, 24th Jan. Hume Coll. 



1. Myupuri, 1st March. Hume Coll. 



.1. Etawah, Dec. ( JF. E. Brooks). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus NYCTEA, Siei^li. 

 Nyctea nyctea {Linn.). 



Strix nyctea, Thien. Fortpjianz. ges. Viig. tab. xliii. iig. 11, «, 6 (1845-54) ; 



Wheehorii/ht, Sprinff ^ Summer in Lapland, p. 256 (1871). 

 N^'ctea nivea, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Tog. tab. 42. fig. 2 (1855-G3); Neivton, 



F. Z.S. 1861, p. 394. 

 Surnea nvctea, Heicitson, Eg(/s of Brit. Birds, i- p. 64, pi. xviii. fig. iii 



(1856) ; Seehohm, Brit. 'Birds, i. p. 177, pi. 7 (1883) ; id. Ei,gs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 25, pi. 6. tig. 7 (1S96). 

 Nyctea scandiaca, Dresser. Birds Eur. v. p. 287 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. ii. p. 125 (1875) : Feilden, Ibis, 1877, p. 403; id. in 



Nares's Toy. Polar Sea, ii. p. 208 (1878). 

 Nyctea scandiaca, var. arctica, Baird, Brewer ^- Eidyiv. N. Ainer. Birds, 



iii. p. 70 (1874). 

 Nyctea nvctea, Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 389, pi. xii. 



fig. 19 (1892) ; Sharpe,' Hand-l. i. p. 284 (1899). 



The eggs of the Snowy Owl are somewhat elongated ovals or 

 ellipses and are slightly glossy. They measure from 2-15 to li-35 in 

 length, and from 1'61 to 1-y in breadth. 



Grlnnell Land, N. Lat. 82° 32', Voy. li.M.S. ' Alert.' 



24th June (H. W. Feilden). 

 Discovery Bav, Griunell Land Voy. U.M.S. ' Discovery.' 



(C'.Hart).' 

 Moravian Settlement, Labrador Crowley Bequest. 



(Tristram Coll.). 

 1. Lapland {Hargit.t Coll.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Lapland, 2ud June. Crowley Bequest. 



1. La})laiid. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Quickjock, Lapland {H. W. Seebohm Coll. 



Wheehcright). 



Genus SCOPS, Savign. 



The eggs of the Scops Owls arc typically spheroidal in shape 

 Slid moderately glossy. 



Scops scops {Linn.). 



Strix scops, Thien. Fortpjianz. ges. Tiig. tab. xliii. fig. 6, a, h (lB4-5-o4). 

 Scops zorea, Baedeker, Eier Eur. To</. tab. 49. fig. 7 (1855-03) ; Salcin, 



Ibis, 1859, n. 190 ; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 291. 

 Scops aldrovandi, Hewitson, Egqs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 54, pi. xix. fig. i 



(1856). 

 Scops giu, Newton, Ooth. Woll. pt. i. p. 153 (1804) ; Tristram, Ibis, 1865, 



