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as examples of Glaucidium pumilum, a native of South America, and has suggested that they 

 had been sent over in collections from the Imperial family in Brazil to their relatives in the 

 ex-royal family of Naples. Count Salvadori's statement having been confirmed by Professor 

 Doderlein of Palermo, we therefore disallow the claim of this species to a place in the fauna 

 of Sicily. 



Dr. v. Schrenck writes as follows : — 



" Our specimen from the Amoor, a female, agrees exactly with a specimen from the neigh- 

 bourhood of St. Petersburg. It has long been known that this little Owl, though not included 

 by Pallas in the ' Zoographia Eosso-Asiatica,' occurs in Russia in Europe. It is probably also 

 distributed throughout all Siberia, as it was observed in the far east by Middendorff at Udskoi- 

 Ostrog, and myself in the Amoor country. The specimen above referred to I shot in a gloomy 

 fir-wood near the Nikolaieffsk Post, after a fall of snow, on the 23rd of October (4th November), 

 1854, as it settled on a low branch." 



Radde found it in the Ditschum valley (Bureja mountains), but states that he did not 

 observe it anywhere else in Siberia. 



The figure in the Plate is drawn from a female specimen obtained at Norrkoping, in the 

 winter of 1864, by Mr. Meves; and the description is taken from the same example. There 

 seems to be but little difference in the sexes, the male being slightly smaller and rather greyer 

 in plumage. 



In the preparation of the above article we have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. Sharpe and Dresser, 

 a, b. Norrkoping {Meves). c. Malmo (T. E. Buckley). 



E Mus. Lord Lilford. 

 a. 6- Sweden, October 6th, 1865 (H. Wheelwright). 



