86 ACCIPITRES NOCTURNI. 



2. NYCTEA. 



Nyctea Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 62. (1825.) 



1. NYCTEA NIVEA. The snowy Owl. 

 Nyctea nivea Bonap. 

 Strix nyctea Linn. S. N. i. p. 132. 

 Strix nivea Daud. Tr. dOrn. ii, p. 190. 

 Strix Candida Lath. Ind. Suppl. p. xiv. 

 Strix erminea Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 251. 

 Nyctea erminea Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 63. 

 Nyetia Candida Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 217. 

 Noctua nyctea Cuv. Reg. An. (1817) i. p. 332. ; Brehm, Vog. 



Deut. i. p. 103. t. 7. f. 2. 



Surnia nyctea Selby, Ornith. i. p. 95. ; Yarrell, Brit. B. i. p. 141. 

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



PL enl. 458. ; Wils. Amer. Orn. pi. 32. f. 1. ; Edwards' Birds, 



pi. 61. ; Levaill Ois. d'Afr. t. 45. ; Vieill. Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 



i. t. 18. ; Audub. B. of Amer. pi. 121. 



a. Great Britain. From Mr. Bullock's Collection. 



b. North America, male. Presented by the Hudson's Bay 



Company. 



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



Back, R. N. 



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



pany. 



3. ATHENE. 



Noctua Sav. Descr, de VEgypte, Hist. Nat. i. p. 105. (1809.) 



Athene Boie, Isis, (1822) p. 549. 



Carine Kaup, Naturl. Syst. der Eur. Thier. p. 29. (1829.) 



Nyctipetes Swains. Classif. of B. ii. p. 218. (1837.) 



Glaucidium Boie, Isis, (1826) p. 976. (1837.) 



Ninox Hodgs. Journ. A. S. B. (1837) p. 364. 



Ciccaba Wagl Isis, (1832) p. 1222. 



a. ATHENE. 

 1. ATHENE NOCTUA. The Austrian rufous Owlet. 



Athene noctua G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 



Strix noctua Eetz. Faun. Suec. p. 85. 



Strix passerina Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 65. ; Temm. Man. d'Orn* 



(1815) p. 53. 

 Noctua passerina Cuv. Reg. An. (1817) i. p. 332. (1829) p. 345.; 



Yarrell, Brit. B. i. p. 149. 

 Noctua glaux Sav. Descr. de TEgypte, Hist. Nat. i. p. 105, 



