144 LEAST EUROPEAN SPARROW OWL. 
Mr. Wheelwright, and were shot by him at Quickiock in Lapland; 
he says he thinks that it occurs occasionally in Denmark, but is 
common in Finland. The lower figure is the old bird. 
It has been figured by Le Vaillant in "Ois. d' Afrique," pi. 416; 
Gould, pi. 50; Nilsson, "Faun. Scan.," pi. 3; Naumann, pi. 48; Dresser, 
"Birds of Europe," pi. 15, but with a facial disk, which my specimens 
have not, either in their youth or old age. 
