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SYENIUM LAPPONICUM. 



(LAPP OWL.) 



Strix lapponica, Sparrm., fide Retz. Faun. Suec. p. 79 (1800). 



Strioc laponica, Sparrman, Sv. Orn. pi. 4 (1806). 



Stryx barbata, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 318, tab. ii. (1811). 



JJlula lapponica (Retz.), Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 113 (1828). 



Strix barbata (Pall.), Gloger, Naturg. Vog. Eur. i. p. 110 (1834). 



Surnia lapponica (Retz.), Gould, B. of Eur. i. pi. 42 (1838). 



Syrnium cinereum, Bp. Comp. List, p. 6 (1838, nee Gm.). 



JJlula barbata (Pall.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 32 (1840). 



Strix microphthalmos, Tyzenh. Orn. Powsz. i. p. 86 (1843). 



Syrnium microphthalmum (Tyz.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 39 (1845). 



Syrnium lapponicum (Retz.), Strickl. Orn. Syn. i. p. 188 (1855). 



Ulula cinerea, Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Strides, p. 9 (1862, nee Gmel.). 



Syrnium cinereum, var. lapponicum, Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 29 (1874). 



Laplands-ugle, Norwegian ; Lapp-uggla, Swedish ; Lapinpblld, Finnish. 



Figure notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Hapaces, pi. 34 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. 2nd Suppl. taf. 1 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 

 taf. 12. fig. 6 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. Nachtrag, taf. 349 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. 

 pi. 24. fig. 1 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 42 ; Susemihl, Vog. Eur. taf. 40 ; Sparrman, Sv. 

 Orn. taf. 4 ; Pall. I. c. 



2 ad. supr& saturate cinereo-fusca, albido notata et irregulariter fasciata : scapularibus albis, centraliter fusco 

 striatis et vix eodem colore notatis : remigibus saturate cinereo-fuscis albido conspicue fasciatis, fasciis 

 griseo-fusco vermiculatis et in pogonio interno fulvido lavatis : cauda cinereo-fusca, indistincte fusco- 

 albido fasciata et saturate fusco terminata : facie cinerea circulis concentricis fuscis : oculis macula 

 semilunari nigrS. antice semicircumdatis : mento nigro-fusco : corpore subtiis albo, maculis longitudi- 

 nalibus fuscis : pedibus usque ad ungues plurnatis, sordide albis, fusco undulatis : rostro flavo-corneo : 

 iride flavida. 



Pull, supra saturate fusco fumosus, chocolatino tinctus^ pileo fere immaculato : corpore suprk inconspicue 

 albido notato : corpore subtiis fusco fumoso, albido anguste fasciato : alis et cauda, quam in adulto 

 saturatioribus : remigibus externis indistincte griseo-fusco fasciatis. 



Adult Female (Skara, Sweden, 6th March, 1870). Upper parts dark ashy brown blotched and irregularly 

 barred with white, the scapulars white with a central stripe and a few blotches of brown ; quills dark 

 ashy brown broadly barred with dull white, these whitish portions slightly vermiculated with greyish 

 brown, those on the iuner web washed with fulvous buff; tail ashy brown broadly terminated with dark 



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