NYCTALA. — SCOPS. 89 



Noctua tengmalmi, Hewitson, p. 66 ; Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 153 ; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 162. 

 Nyctale fanerea. Gray, p. 23. 



Nyctala tengmalmi, Newton, i. p. 154 ; Dresser, v. p. 319. 

 Nyctale tengmalmi, Gould, i. pi. 36 ; Hurting, p. 96. 

 Tengmalm's Owl^ Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 146. 



Tengmalmi, in honour of Peter Q-ust. Tengmalm, of Stockholm, who first 

 described it (1783). 



An accidental visitor to the eastern counties of Scotland 

 and England. It inhabits the whole of Northern Europe 

 and Siberia; is not found in Southern Europe^ but occurs 

 all over the central portions of the continent. In North 

 America it is found in the high norths rarely occurring 

 within the United States. 



[Nyctala acadica. Saw-wbmt Owl. 



Strix acadica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 396 (1788). 



Nyctale acadica, Gray, p. 23 ; Harting, p. 95. 

 Nyctala acadica, Newton, i. pp. 157, 181, notes. 



Acadica = belonging to Acadia ; the old name of If ova Scotia, whence 

 specimens were first received. 



Sir William Milner ('Zoologist,' 1860, p. 7104) reported 

 a specimen from near Beverley, Yorkshire ; but he probably 

 mistook the species. It inhabits the whole of North America ; 

 and there is no other record of its occurrence in Europe.] 



Genus SCOPS, Savigny, Syst. Ois. de FEgypte, p. 47 

 (1810). 



! = ffKiiip, a kind of Owl, in classical Greek ; from crKOTrew = I look 

 carefully, because of its habit of staring ; or rather from aKonrTia = I mock ; 

 cf. N. H. G. Heher = a Magpie, from Hohn = mockery. 



Scops giu. Scops Owl. 



Strix Scops, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 132 (1766). 



Strix scops, Naum. i. p. 466. 



Scops aldrovandi, Macg. iii. p. 432 ; Hewitson, p. 54 ; Yarr. 



ed. 3, i. p. 120 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 137. 

 Ephialtes scops, Gray, p. 33. 



