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Genus SURNIA, Dumeril, Zool. Anal. p. 34 (1806). 



Surma, an invented name ; probably without meaning. 



Surnia ulula. EUROPEAN HAWK-OWL. 

 Strix Ulula, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 133 (1766). 

 Surnia ulula, Dresser, v. p. 301. 



Ulula = a Screech Owl, in classical Latin. Akin to Sanskrit uluka, O. H. G. 

 Ula, N. H. a. Eule, our " Owl." Of. 6\oAwa> = I cry aloud, v\da> = I howl. 



A specimen was shot near Amesbury, Wilts (R. B. Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1876, p. 334). It inhabits Northern Europe, Siberia, 

 and Kamtschatka, migrating into Central Europe acciden- 

 tally and in winter. 



Surnia funerea. AMERICAN HAWK-OWL. 

 Strix funerea, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 133 (1766). 



Strix nisoria, Naum. i. p. 427. 



Syrnia funerea, Macg. iii. p. 404. 



Surnia funerea, Hewitson, p. 65; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 146; id. 



ed. 3, i. p. 155 ; Newton, i. p. 183 ; Gould, i. pi. 35 ; 



Harting, p. 91 ; Dresser, v. p. 309. 

 Surnia ulula, Gray, p. 20. 

 The Hawk Owl, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 139. 



Funerea = of or belonging to a funeral, funus. Hence ill-boding, dismal ; an 

 epithet applied to bubo by Ovid, Metam. x. 226 & 453. 



Inhabits the northern part of the New World ; an 

 occasional straggler to Great Britain and Ireland. 



Genus NYCTALA, C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1271. 



Nyctala, from wKraXos = nocturnal. 



Nyctala tengmalmi. TENGMALM'S OWL. 



Strix Tengmalmi, .7. F. Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 291 



(1788). 



Strix Tengmalmi, Naum. i. p. 500. 

 Ulula tengmalmi, Macg. iii. p. 445. 



