NIGHT-OWL. BAPTORES. NOCTUA. 105 



The members of this genus are of diminutive size, and of 

 strictly nocturnal habits, as indicated by the form and struc- 

 ture of the ear. They have a near resemblance to each other 

 in the prevailing colour and disposition of their plumage ; 

 and are found disseminated in a great variety of latitudes 

 and climates. They prey upon mice and other small mam- 

 malia, as well as insects ; and their flight, like the other 

 nocturnal species, is buoyant and noiseless. 



TENGMALM'S NIGHT-OWL. 



NOCTUA TENGMALMI, Miln. 

 PLATE XXVI. 



Strix Tengmalmi, Gmel Syst. 1. 291. Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. 64. sp. 42 



Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 94. No. 26. pi. 32. 



Strix funerea, Linn. Faun. Suec. 25. sp. 75. 



Strix dasypus, Bechst. and Meyer ^ Temm. Man. d' Ornith. 1. 94. 



Chouette Tengmalm, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1. 94. 



Rauchf ussiger Kauz. Meyer, Vog. Deut. Heft. 6, male and female. 



Tengmalm's Owl, Selby, Cat. in Trans, of Nat. Hist. Soe., Northumber- 

 land, Durham, and Newcastle, v. 1. 248. North. Zool. 2. 94. pi. 32. 



New species of Owl, Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. SuppL 60. 



I HAVE now great satisfaction in correcting an error com- 

 mitted at the time the figures contained in the first part of 

 the " Illustrations of British Ornithology, 1 ' and the first edi- 

 tion of the present accompanying volume, were published ; 

 where, from the want of specimens to make the necessary 

 comparison, I had figured and described an Owl under the 

 title of Strix Passerina, Linn., which, upon further investi- 

 gation, proves to be a different, although nearly allied, kind, 

 and known by the specific name of Strix Tengmalmi. The 

 specimen from which my figure was taken still remains in 

 my collection, and was killed near to Morpeth in Northum- 

 berland in 1812 ; a fact that, independent of the capture of 

 others since that period (which I believe to have occurred), Rare vi- 

 entitles it to be placed upon the list of our fauna as a rare Sltant ' 



