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RAPTROES. STRIGIDJE. 



TENGMALlVrS OWL. 



Noctua Tengmalmi. 



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



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 94. 



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



Noctua GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Striae CJiouette Tengmalmj TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 94. 



THIS pretty marked Owl was clearly distinguished from 

 the Strix passerina of authors by Dr. Tengmalm, an able 

 Ornithologist, who resided near Stockholm, and who ap- 

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

 pears to have been changed by Gmelin to that of Stria 

 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 



