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occurring in Europe only, does not make the name applied first 

 to the latter, and subsequently to both, available for the former 

 only, and funerea can, therefore, by no means be employed for 

 the American Hawk Owl, neither by the advocates of the lotli 

 edition nor by those favoring that of 1766. 



It might from the above appear as if we were compelled then 

 to u^e.J'unerea for the European bird, but this is not necessarily 

 the case. Linnasus in both editions, on the same page, described 

 the same species under another name, viz., Strix iilula^ and 

 there is every reason for retaining this name, which has been in 

 general use of late by both the loth and the I3th edition parties, 

 and is especially commendable for the European bird, since Lin- 

 naeus himself never mixed it up with its I'elative on the other side 

 of the Atlantic. 



The first binomial name for the American Hawk Owl will be 

 found to be P. St. Miiller's Strix caparoch* (not caparacock as 

 quoted by some authors), published in 1779? consequently being 

 nine years older than Gmelin's Strix hudsonia. Both these 

 names are based upon pi. 62 of Edward's 'Natural History,' and 

 consequently equally pertinent, and Buftbn's Caparacoch, quoted 

 by both of them, is also founded upon the same plate and 

 description. 



The immediate source of Miiller's account is Boddaert's 'Kort- 

 begrip' (p. 112, 1772), and the lapsus of the latter in writing 

 "Caparoch" in place of 'Caparacoch,' and giving the habitat as 

 Europe instead of North America, reappear in Miiller's transcrip- 

 tion. 



The Hawk Owls of Mr. Ridgway's 'Nomenclature' (p. 37) 

 should, therefore, stand as : 



4o7«. Surnia ulula (Z/;?«). Bp. European Hawk Owl. 

 407. Surnia ulula caparoch {AfUll.). American Hawk 

 Owl. 



The name of the latter is atrociously barbarous, but. however, 

 in that respect is not worse than many others ; and it will be found 

 quite convenient, when we first have got used to it. It certainly 

 is much more distinctive than funerea^ and its sound is just as 

 suggestive of the American habitat of its owner as would be 



* St7-ix caparoch P. St. Miiller, Suppl. S. N. p. 69 (1779). 



