TENGMALM’S OWL. 
STRIx TENGMALMI, GMEL. 
PLATE CCCLXXX. Mate anp Femate. 
I procured a fine male of this species at Bancor, in Maine, on the 
Penobscot River, in the beginning of September 1832; but am unac- 
quainted with its habits, never having seen another individual alive. 
Dr Townsenp informs me that he found it first on the Malade River 
Mountains, where it was so tame and unsuspicious, that Mr Norra 
was enabled to approach within a few feet of it. as it sat upon the 
bushes. Dr Ricuarpson gives the following notice respecting it in 
the Fauna Boreali- Americana :—‘* When it accidentally wanders abroad 
in the day, it is so much dazzled by the light cf the sun as to become 
stupid, and it may then be easily caught by the hand. Its ery in the 
night is a single melancholy note, repeated at intervals of a minute or 
two. Mr Horcnrns informs us that it builds a nest of grass half-way 
up a pine tree, and lays two white eggs in the month of May. It feeds 
on mice and beetles. I cannot state the extent of its range, but be- 
lieve that it inhabits all the woody country from Great Slave Lake to 
the United States. On the banks of the Saskatchewan it is so common 
that its voice is heard almost every nizht by the traveller, wherever he 
selects his bivouac.” 
Srrrx Tenemarmt, Gmel. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 291.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p. 65. 
Strix Tenemaimi, TENGMaALm’s Ow1, Swains. and Richards. Fauna Bor.-Amer 
vol. ii, p. 94. 
Adult Male. Plate CCCLXXX. Fig. 1. 
Bill short, very deep, strong ; upper mandible with its dorsal line 
curved from the base, its ridge convex, as are the sides, the edges sharp 
and incurved anteriorly, the tip very acute, and at its extremity nearly 
perpendicular ; the cere short, and bare on its upper part; the lower 
mandible has the angle broad and short, the dorsal line slightly convex, 
