STRIGIDiE. 17 



JJyctra ScanKt'ac.i (Linn.'). 

 Syn. Strix scandiaca, Linn.- 

 Strix nyctea, Linu. ' 

 Striv niven, Thunberg '. 

 Siiniia nyctea, James *. 

 Nyctea nivca, Gray ". 



The single representative of the genus. 



Hab. Northern Palaearctic and Nearctic regions. 



A. 50. The right tarso-metatarsus : from the Pleistocene of Kent's 

 (Fig.) Hole Cavern, Torquay, Devonshire. This specimen Cfig. 5), 



Fig. 5. 



Nyctea scatidiaca. —Anteriov aud distal aspects of the right tarso-metatarsus ; 

 from Kent's Cavern. \. 

 which wants part of the bar over the proximal extensor 

 depression, is the only recorded example of remains of this 

 species from English deposits. It is somewhat smaller 

 than the specimen from a French cavern figured by Milne- 

 Edwards in his ' Oiscaux Fossilcs de la France,' vol. ii. 

 pi. cxciv. figs. 1-i. Presented by Lord Haldoii, 18S3. 



* Syst. Nat. ed. 12, vol. i. p. 132 (1766).— StrLv. 



^ Loc. cit. 3 ^(,^_ ^Y. 



' Svensk. Ak. Forhandl. 1798, p. 184. 



' In Wilson's 'American Ornithology,' vol. i. p. 92 (1808). 



' Genera of Birds, vol. i. p. 34 (1844). 







