STRIGIDjE. 



RAPTORES. 



STRIOID^. 



TENGMALM'S OWL. 



Noctua Tengmalmi. 



Noctua Tengmalmi, Tengmalm's Owl, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 105. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 94. 



Syrnium EYTON, Ilare Brit. Birds, p. 90. 



Noctua GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Strix Chouette Tengmalm, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 94. 



THIS prettily -marked Owl was clearly distinguished from 

 the Stria: passerina of authors by Dr. Tengmalm, an able 

 Ornithologist, who resided near Stockholm, and who ap- 

 plied to it the name of Strix noctua ; but this name ap- 

 pears to have been changed by Gmelin to that of Strix 

 Tengmalmi^ in compliment to its early describer. 



Though similar in size and general appearance to the 

 Little Owl last figured, it will at once be distinguished on 



