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Rapaces— Nocturnae. 

 STRIGIDyE. 



Genus — Strix. (Linnceus.J 

 Section I. — First Division — Accipitrines. 



LAP OWL. 



Strix Lapponica. 

 Strix Lapponica, Eetzius. Temminck. 



SCHLEGEL. DEGLAND. 



" cinerea, Gmelin. Audubon. 



K.ICHARDSON & SWAINSON. 



in "Faun. Bor. Am." 



" barbata, Pallas. 



" fuliginosa, Shaw. Nilsson. Audubon. 



Ulula Lapponica, Cuviee. 



Sj/rnium cinereum, Bonaparte. Gray. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage grey, spotted and striped with 

 brown and russet above; white, with dashes of brown below. 

 Length twenty-four inches. — Degland. 



Length of specimen in Norwich Museum twenty-four inches; 

 from carpus to tip of wing seventeen inches. 



The range of the Lap Owl is confined to Lapland, 

 Greenland, and the northern parts of North America. 



An interesting account of this bird is given in 

 Richardson and Swainson's "Fauna Boreali Americana," 



