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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Nine other specimens, killed at Bear Lake, Slave Lake,, York Factory, and on 

 the Rocky Mountains, presented no other difference than the white spots, in some 

 of them,, being- fewer on the neck, between the shoulders, and on the scapularies. 

 Their length varied from 16£ to 17J inches ; but the sexes were not specified. 



Head of the Hawk Owl. Bill, showing the nostrils. Ear. 



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9. Strix Tengmalmi. (Linn.) Tengmalm's Owl. 



Genus. Strix. Linn. Sub-genus. Noctua. Cuvier. 



" Strix dasypus. Beciistein and Meyer." (Temminck.) 



Strix passerina. Forster. Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 385, No. 7- 



New species of Owl. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., Suppl., p. 60. 



Strix Tengmalmi. Temminck, i., p. 94. Vieillot. Ency. Meth., iii., 1288. Idem. Gal. 



des Ois., pi. 23. 

 Cheepai-peethees, or Cheepomesees. (DeatJi-bird.) Cree Indians. 

 Shipomosish. Hutchins. MS., et apud Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 236. 



Plate xxxii. 



This species resembles Strix fiinerea, Virginiana, &c, in its short and fea- 

 thered tarsi ; while the size and structure of its ears point out its affinity to 

 those groups which are strictly nocturnal. The bill is short and much curved, 

 the nostrils very convex, and their apertures oval. The wings are considerably 

 rounded. — Sw. 



The completely nocturnal habits of this Owl is a proof of the justness of the 



