NYCTALA. SCOPS. 89 



Noctua tengmalmi, Hewitson, p. 66 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 153 ; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 162. 

 Nyctale funerea, Gray, p. 22. 



Nyctala tengmalmi, Newton, i. p. 154 ; Dresser, v. p. 319. 

 Nyctale tengmalmi, Gould, i. pi. 36 ; Harting, p. 96. 

 Tengmalnr's Owl, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 146. 



Tengmalmi, in honour of Peter Gust. Tengmalra, of Stockholm, who first 



described it (1783). 



Anaccidental visitor to the eastern counties of Scotland 

 and England. It inhabits the whole of Northern Europe 

 and Siberia ; is not found in Southern Europe, but occurs 

 all over the central portions of the continent. In North 

 America it is found in the high north, rarely occurring 

 within the United States. 



\_Nyctala acadica. SAW-WHET OWL. 

 Strix acadica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 296 (1788). 

 Nyctale acadica, Gray, p. 23 ; Harting, p. 95. 

 Nyctala acadica, Newton, i. pp. 157, 181, notes. 



Acadica = belonging to Acadia ; the old name of Nova Scotia, whence 

 specimens were first received. 



Sir William Milner (< Zoologist/ 1860, p. 7104) reported 5 v 

 a specimen from near Beverley, Yorkshire ; but he probably 

 mistook the species. It inhabits the whole of North America ; 

 and there is no other record of its occurrence in Europe.] 



Genus SCOPS, Savigny, Syst. Ois. de FEgypte, p. 47 

 (1810). 



Scops = erjcoh//, a kind of Owl, in classical Greek; from <r/co7re(u = I look 

 carefully, because of its habit of staring ; or rather from (TKWTrrw = I mock ; 

 cf. N. H. G. Heher = a Magpie, from Hohn = mockery. 



Scops giu. SCOPS OWL. 



S-txix Scops, Liwunus, S. N. i. p. 132 (1766). w 



Strix scops, Naum. i. p. 466. 



Scops aldrovandi, Macg. iii. p. 422 ; Hewitson, p. 54 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 120 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 127. 

 Ephialtes scops, Gray, p. 23. 



