80 CLASS AVES. 



ral species nearly allied to this in America and in 

 India, &c. 



The Red Passerine Owl {St. passerina, Meyer and 

 Wolf.) 



Of a redder tint, both on the brown and on the white ; 

 a whitish half collar on the neck ; some triangular 

 red spots on the sides of the tail ; the toes only 

 covered. It is still less than the last^ and in the 

 head is almost altogether assimilated to the sparrow- 

 hawk. 



The history of the small Passerine Owl of Europe 

 is not as yet clear. Almost every ornithologist has 

 regarded the smallest species as the St. Passerina ; 

 whence has resulted the greatest confusion in the 

 Synonyma. 



Little Owl, Lath. St. Passerina, Lin. Edw. t. 228. 

 pi. Enl. t. 439. 



Size of a jay. Toes covered with a few white hairs ; 

 feathers of the head with a long pale line. Europe, 

 Egypt, and Nubia. England, (£t^^^).) This is the j^^. 

 noctua, Retz ; St. nudipes, Nilson, not Daud. ; the 

 Noctua of the ancients, the emblem of Minerva. 



Tengleman's Owl. St. Tenglmalmi, Gmel. Penn. 

 B. Z. fol. t. B. 5. Gal. Ois. t. 23. 



Size of a jay ; toes and tarsi covered to the claws with 

 a thick velvet ; head feathers each with two rows of 

 white dots. S. darypus, Bechst. ; St. noctua, Tengm. 

 and St. funerea, Lin. Fauna Suec. Europe, the St, 

 Passerina of Montague's collection. 



