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TENGMALM'S OWL. 



TENGMALM S NIGHT OWL. 



Strix Tengmalmi, GMELIN. LATHAM. 



" funerea, LINNAEUS. 



Noctua Tengmalmi, JENYNS. 



StrixSome species of Owl. Tengmalmi Of Tengmalm. 



Tins pretty little Owl received its specific name from 

 Gmelin, in compliment to the discoverer, Dr. Tengmalm, an 

 able ornithologist, who lived near Stockholm, in Sweden. 



It inhabits principally the northern parts of Europe 

 Russia, Sweden, Livonia, and Norway, and has also been met 

 with in Germany, Erance, and Transalpine Italy. It is said 

 to be very abundant in North America. 



In Yorkshire, one was killed at Hunmanby, in the East- 

 Riding, by Admiral Mitford's gamekeeper, about 1847. In 

 1836 a specimen, recently shot, was purchased in a poulterer's 

 shop in London; another was killed the same year in Kent; 

 one on the sea-coast, near Marsden, in the county of Durham, 

 in October, 1848; and one near Morpeth, in Northumberland, 

 in 1812. 



There has as yet been no discovery of the occurrence of 

 this species in Ireland. In Scotland one was killed in May, 

 1847, at Spinningdale, in Sutherlandshire. 



This bird is strictly nocturnal .in .its habits, and is so 

 dazzled by the light of the sun, if by any accident forced 

 into it, that it may easily be caught with the hand. It 

 frequents wooded districts the thick and extensive pine forests 

 of the north, and orchards, and other lesser plantations. It 

 may be easily tamed, even if taken in the adult state, and 

 exhibits many amusing positions. It erects the feathers of 

 the face at times to a considerable extent. 



In flight this Owl is light and easy. 



