216 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
said gunner has more nerve when working a gun than he displayed on 
finding the little bird, being afraid to catch it, as, he said, ‘it glow’red 
athim.’ It was caught by a man of the Forty-second, and lived in my 
room for several days, getting quite tame. At night it always became 
restless, and finally killed itself against the wires of the cage. Mr. Harry 
Tucker saw another some short time afterwards, in a cave on the south 
shore.” ; 
Sub-family NYCTEININ A. 
Genus NYcTEA, Steph. 
75. Nyctea scandiaca., (Linn.) Newton. Snowy Owl. 
Strix scandiaca, Linn. 
Nyctea scandiaca, Newt., Dress. 
Nyctea scandiaca, var arctica, Ridg., B. B. & R. 
Stri« nyctea, Linn., Briss., Briinn., Forst., Gm., Lath., Daud., Vieil., Pall., 
Wils., Bp., Temm., Nutt., Aud., &c. 
Noctua nyctea, Cuv., Boie., Less., Brehm., Schl. 
Surnia nyctea, Selby, Gould, Jard., Keys. & Blas., Aud., Gir., Putn., Kaup. 
Syrnia nyctea, Macgil., Jard., Watt. 
Strix nivea, Thumb., Daud. 
Noctua nivea, Brehin. 
Nyctea nivea, Gray, Bp., Cass., Brewer, Bd., and many later authors. 
Strix bubo, var. albus, Daud. 
Stria candida, Lath. 
Nyctia candida, Sw. 
Strix erminea, Shaw. 
Total length, 24 to 27 inches; wing, 16 to 17; tail, 10. 
Hab.—Northern regions of both continents, migrating southward in 
winter. Resident in Canada, Bermuda, South Carolina, Kentucky. 
(Baird.) 
Colonel Wedderburn observes (Nat. in B., p. 25): Lieutenant Fayrer, 
royal navy, shot two specimens at Boss’s Cove in the autumn of 1848. 
Another, a fine female specimen, was shot by a person named Llewellyn, 
at Ireland Island, on the 29th November, 1853. This bird was only 
wounded, and when examined by Mr. Hurdis, on the 13th December 
following, appeared lively and well. When being fed, it frequently 
erected a little tuft of feathers on each side of the head, so as to resem- 
ble small horns. Two frequented the islands in the autumn of 1875; 
one of these was shou by Lieutenant Tallents, Twentieth Regiment, the 
other escaped, though it remained two months or more. 
