TENGM ALM'S OWL 



TENGMALM'S NIGHT OWL. 



PLATE XXVI. FIGURE. I. 



Strix tengmalmi, .... GMELIN. LATHAM. 

 Strixfunerea, .... LINNAEUS. 

 Noctua tengmalmi, .... JENYNS. 



"HpHESE Owls, which are only accidental visitors to the 

 1 British Isles, are said to breed in holes of trees, and 

 to make no nest, or only to use a little grass for the 

 purpose. But our first knowledge of the breeding of this 

 species was, as Saunders says, derived from Wolley, who 

 found that in Lapland it occupied the tyllas or uus 

 nest-boxes formed of logs hollowed out at either end, with 

 a hole cut in the side set up by the inhabitants for the 

 use of the Golden-eye Ducks ; it also deposits its eggs 

 in holes in trees, often in some former abode of the Black 

 Woodpecker. 



The eggs, laid between the beginning of May and end of 

 June, are usually from four to six, and exceptionally ten, in 

 number; they are smooth, and white in colour. 



