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Suborder II. ACCIPITRES NOCTURNI. 

 Fam. V. STEIGID^E. 



1. SURNIA. 

 Surnia Dum. Zool Anal. p. 34. (1806.) 



1. SURNIA ULULA. The Canada Owl. 



Surnia ulula Bonap. 



Strix ulula Linn. S. N* i. p. 133. 



Strix funerea Linn. S. N. i. p. 133. 



Strix doliata Pall. Zoogr. i. p. 316. t. 1. 



Strix canadensis Briss. Orn. i. p. 518. t. 37. f. 2. 



Strix freti Hudsonis JBriss. Om. i. 520. 



Strix Hudsonia Gmel S. N. i. p. 295. 



Strix nisoria Meyer, Taschenb. Deuts. i. p. 84. 



Strix arctica Sparr. Mus. Carl. 51. 



Noctua (Surnia) funerea Cuv. Reg. An. (1817) i. p. 332. 



Surnea funerea Brehm, Vog. Dent. i. p. 101. ; Yarrell, Brit. B. i. 



p. 146. 



Surnia borealis Less. Tr. a" Orn. p. 100. 

 Surnia nisoria Brehm, Vog. Deut. i. p. 102. t. 7. f. 1. 

 Syrnium nisoria Kaup, Naturl. Syst. der Eur. Thier. p. 59. 



PL enl 463. ; Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 50. f. 6. ; Audub. B. of 



Amer. pi. 378. ; Edwards Birds, pi. 62. 



<z, b. Northern Asia. 



c, d. Siberia. From Mr. Wahlberg's Collection. 



e. North America. 



/. North America. Presented by the Hudson's Bay Com- 



pany. 

 g. Northern Land Expedition. Presented by Capt. Sir G. 



Back, R. N. 



