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SUENIA FUNEKEA. 



(AMERICAN HAWK OWL.) 



The Little Hawk Owl, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, ii. pi. 62 (1747). 

 Cajmracoch, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 306 (1770, ex Edw.). 

 Strioc canadensis, Briss. Om. i. p. 518, pi. xxxvii. fig. 2 (1760). 

 Strix freti hudsonis, id. op. cit. p. 520 (1760, ex Edw.). 

 Strix funerea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 133 (1766, ex Briss.). 

 Strix caparoch, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. i. p. 69 (1776). 

 Strix hudsonia, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 295 (1788). 

 Surnia funerea, Dumeril, Zool. Analyt. p. 34 (1806). 

 Surnia canadensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 62 (1825). 

 Surnia borealis, Less. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 100 (1831). 

 Syrnia funerea, Macgill. Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 404 (1840). 

 Noctua funerea, Yarr. Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 139 (1843). 



Figuras notabiles. 



Audubon, B. of N. America, folio, pi. 378, et op. cit. 8vo, i. pi. 27 ; Dekay, Zool. N. S. 

 Birds, pi. 9. fig. 19. 



Ad. similis & ululce sed saturatior, et fasciis pectoralibus latis rufescentibus semper distinguendus. 



Adult Male. Above glossy dark brown, inclining to purplisb black on tbe nape and hinder neck ; crown of 

 the head thickly covered with white spots or bars, mostly rounded or oval, but becoming elongated on 

 the hinder part of the head ; a rather distinct white eyebrow ; sides of the face, exhibiting no distinct 

 facial disk, silvery white, a few of the loral bristles black ; the ear-coverts and hinder cheek-feathers 

 blackish at their tips, thus forming a distinct longitudinal patch down the sides of the neck ; hinder 

 part of the neck, or wig, brown varied with oval or lanceolate spots of white ; interscapulary region 

 brown, unspotted ; scapulars also brown, the outer webs marked with large and conspicuous white oval 

 spots ; lower part of the back reddish brown, varied with bars and spots of white ; wing-coverts brown, 

 like the back, the least ones obsoletely margined with whitish, the greater ones scantily marked with 

 large oval spots of white ; quills dark brown, the secondaries rather paler, spotted and barred with white 

 on both webs, the spots becoming fewer on the outermost primaries, where they occasionally form only 

 blotches of white on the external web, or are altogether absent ; tail-feathers paler brown, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with narrow and irregular bars of brownish white, gradually becoming bars of 

 paler brown towards the external feathers, which, however, are rather broadly banded with white 

 towards their base; under surface of the body whitish as far as the breast, with a large patch of 

 purplish brown on the throat and sides of the breast, leaving a patch of white on the lower throat ; 

 upper part of the breast whitish, crossed by more or less distinct bars of brownish, so that the pectoral 

 gorget becomes much obscured ; rest of the under surface of the body crossed by broad alternate bars 

 of white and chestnut-brown, the latter being particularly broad on the flanks ; legs fulvous, mottled 



