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Rapraces—Nocturne. 
STRIGID ZA. 
Genus—Srrix. (Linneus.) 
Section I.—First Division—AccIPITRINES. 
LAP OWL. 
Strix Lapponica. 
Strix Lapponica, Rerzivs. TEmMMincx. 
“ cs ScHircEeLt. DeEGLAND. 
“cinerea, GMELIN. AUDUBON. 
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Ricuarpson & Swanson, 
in “Faun. Bor. Am.” 
“  barbata, Patuas. 
« fuliginosa, SHaw. Niztson. Aupuson. 
Ulula Lapponica, CuvIER. 
Syrnium 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.—DrceLanp. 
Length of specimen in Norwich Museum twenty-four inches; — 
from carpus to tip of wing seventeen inches. 
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TueE 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 
