526 APPENDIX. 



GEN. NOCTUA. Page 93. 



(SURNIA. p. 93.) 



26*. N. funerea, Nob. (Canada Owl.) Upper parts 

 spotted with brown and white ; beneath white, with trans- 

 verse brown bars: quills spotted with white; tail marked 

 with distant, transverse, narrow, white bars. 



Strix funerea, Lath. Ind. Orn. vol. i. p. 62. Temm. Man. dOrn. 

 torn. i. p. 86. Faun. Bor. Amer. part ii. p. 92. Little Hawk 

 Owl, Edw. Nat. Hist. pi. 62. Hawk Owl, Lath. Syn. vol. i. 

 p. 143. 



DIMENS. Entire length fourteen inches two or three lines : length of 

 the tail six inches six lines. TEMM. 



DE SCRIPT. Forehead dotted with white and brown; a black band 

 arises behind the eyes, surrounds the orifice of the ears, and terminates 

 on the sides of the neck : upper parts marked with brown and white 

 spots of various forms; edge of the wing with similar white spots 

 upon a brown ground : throat whitish ; the rest of the under parts white, 

 with transverse streaks of cinereous brown : a large spot of dusky brown 

 at the insertion of the wings : tail-feathers cinereous brown, with distant 

 zigzag streaks forming narrow transverse bands: bill yellow, varied 

 with black spots according to age : irides pale yellow : feet feathered to 

 the claws. The female differs only in being somewhat larger, and in 

 having the colours less pure. TEMM. 



An individual of this species, which inhabits the Arctic Regions, is 

 recorded by Mr. Thompson, in a recent communication to the Zoological 

 Society*, to have been taken on board a collier, a few miles off the coast 

 of Cornwall, in March, 1830, being at the time in so exhausted a state 

 as to allow itself to be captured by the hand. According to Temminck, 

 the species appears occasionally as a bird of passage in Germany, and 

 more rarely in France, but never in the southern provinces. Said to 

 feed principally on mice and insects. Builds in trees, and lays two white 

 eggs. 



* Proceed. o/Zool. Soc. June 9, 1835. 



