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NTCTEA SCANDIACA. 



(SNOWY OWL.) 



Bubo scandianus, Rudebeck, Icon. ined. 



Strix capite aurito, corpore albido, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 16. no. 42 (1746), ex Rudeb. 

 Strix scandiaca, Linn. S. N. i. p. 132. no. 2 (1766), ex Linn. 

 Strix nyctea, Linn. torn. cit. p. 132. no. 6 (1766). 



Wapacuthu Owl, Pennant, Arctic Zool. ii. p. 231. no. 119, "Hudson's Bay " (1785). 

 Strix wapacuthu, Gm. S. N. i. p. 291. no. 27 (1788), ex Pennant. 

 Strix arctica, Bar tram, Travels, p. 289 (1791). 

 Strix nivea, Thunberg, Sv. Ak. Handl. 1798, p. 184. 

 La Chouette blanche, Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 174. pi. 45 (1799). 

 Strix bubo (var. g) albus, Daudin, Tr. d'Ornith. ii. p. 210 (1800), ex Linn. 

 Strix nivea, Daudin (mot. propr.), torn. cit. p. 190 (1800), ex Levaillant. 

 Strix Candida, Latham, Ind. Ornith. Suppl. p. xiv. no. 3 (1801), ex Levaillant. 

 Ermine Owl, Latham, Synop. Suppl. ii. p. 60. no. 7 (1802), ex Levaillant. 

 Strix erminea, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. i. p. 251 (1809), ex Latham. 

 Noctua nyctea (Linn.), Cuvier, Regne An. i. p. 332 (1817). 

 Noctua nyctea (Linn.), F. Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 770. 



Nyctea erminea (Shaw), Stephens, Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. ii. p. 63. no. 1 (1826). 

 Nyctea' 1 . wapacuthu (Gm.), Stephens, loc. cit. no. 2 (1826). 



Symium nyctea (Linn.), Kaup, Entwickelungsgesch. europ. Thierw. pp. 59, 190 (1829). 

 Strix nyctea (Linn.), Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. Aves, p. 89. no. 24 (1831). 

 Strix nyctea, Linn., Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiatica, i. p. 312 (1831). 

 Surnia nyctea (Linn.), Selby, 111. Brit. Orn. i. p. 95 (1833). 

 Noctua nyctea (Linn.), C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1834, p. 240. 

 Noctua nivea (Linn.), C. L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 246 (1834). 

 Nyctia Candida (Latham), Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii. p. 217 (1836). 

 Strix nivea, Thunberg, Zawadzki, Faun, galizisch-bukowinischen Wirbelth. p. 45 (1840). 

 Syrnia nyctea (Linn.), Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 407 (1840). 

 Nyctea nivea (Thunberg), G. R. Gray & Mitch. Genera of Birds, i. p. 34 (1844-49). 

 Nyctea nivea (Daudin), Bp. Consp. i. p. 36 (1850). 

 Nyctea nivea (Stephens), C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 35 (1855). 

 Nyctea Candida (Bp.), C. L. Brehm, loc. cit. (1855). 

 Surnia nyctea (Linn.), Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. pt. 6. p. 214 (1859). 

 Nyctea nivea (Daudin), Baird, Birds N. Amer. p. 63 (1861). 

 Nyctea nivea europasa, A. Brehm, Verz. Samml. v. C. L. Brehm, p. 2 (1866). 

 Nyctea nivea americana, A. Brehm, loc. cit. (1866). 



Nyctea scandiaca (Linn.), A. Newton, Yarrell, Brit. Birds, 4th ed. pt. iii. p. 187 (1872). 



(The above by Lord Walden.) 



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