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TENGMALM’S OWL. 
TENGMALM’S NIGHT OWL. 
Sirtx Tengmalmi, GMELIN. LATHAM. 
“ funerea, LINNAUS, 
Noctua Tengmalmi, JENYNS. 
Striz—Some species of Owl. Tengmalmi—Of Tengmalm. 
Tuts pretty little Owl received its specific name from 
Gmelin, in compliment to the discoverer, Dr. Tengmalm, an 
able ornithologist, who lived near Stockholm, in Sweden. 
It inhabits principally the northern parts of Europe— 
Russia, Sweden, Livonia, and Norway, and has also been met 
with in Germany, France, and Transalpine Italy. It is said 
to be very abundant in North America. 
In Yorkshire, one was killed at Hunmanby, in the East- 
Riding, by Admiral Mitford’s gamekeeper, about 1847. In 
1836 a specimen, recently shot, was purchased in a poulterer’s 
shop in London; another was killed: the same year in Kent; 
one on the sea-coast, near Marsden, in the county of Durham, 
in October, 1848; and one near Morpeth, in Northumberland, 
in 1812. 
There has as yet been no discovery of the occurrence of 
this species in Ireland. In Scotland one was killed in May, 
1847, at Spinningdale, in Sutherlandshire. 
This bird is strictly nocturnal in its habits, and is so 
dazzled by the light of the sun, if by any accident forced 
into it, that it may easily be caught with the hand. I¢ 
frequents wooded districts—the thick and extensive pine forests 
of the north, and orchards, and other lesser plantations. It 
may be easily tamed, even if taken in the adult state, and 
exhibits many amusing positions. It erects the feathers of 
the face at times to a considerable extent. 
In flight this Owl is light and easy. 
