OWL. 367 



the neck white, shaded with black, forming a sort of band or collar 

 at the lower part, extending on each side to the bend of the wing- ; 

 breast rnfons, streaked with brownish black ; rest of the under parts 

 white, mixed with rufous brown ; legs wholly covered with white 

 do^vn to the claws, which are yellowish brown ; tail rather long in 

 proportion, and seems in the figure rounded; the wings reach to about 

 one-third. 



Inhabits Senegal; one brought from thence in the collection 

 of M. Raye de Breukelerwaerd. 



7a-^TENGMALM'S OWL. 



Strix Tengmalmi, Ind. Orn.'u p. 64. Gm. Lin.V. 291. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 60. Tengm. 



Act. Stockh. 1783. i. Shaie's Zool. vii. 267. Tern. Man. p. 54. Id. Ed. ii, p. 94.*= 



Daud. ii. 205. 29. var. 

 Tengmalms Owl, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 66. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 60. 



SIZE of a Blackbird. Bill dusky, tip white, from its corners 

 to each eye a line of black ; irides yellow ; circlet of the face feathers 

 white, mixed with dusky ; head grey, striped with white, surrounded 

 with a dusky circle, spotted white and dusky; primaries dusky, 

 barred with white ; breast and belly white, varied irregularly with 

 dusky marks ; tail dusky grey, striped with white ; toes feathered to 

 the claws, grey, with pea-shaped spots of white. 



Inhabits Sweden, about Upland, also Norway and Russia ; has 

 also been met with in France, but rarely ; said to lay two white eggs, 

 in the hollow of a tree. 



* M. Temminck thiaks the one figured in the folio Edition of the British Zoology, t. 

 B. 5. to be the female. 



