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tengmalm's owl. 



Strix Tengmalmi. S, corpore griseo, maculis pisiformibus dlbis^ 



iridibusjiavis. Lin. Gmel, 

 Grey Owl, with pea-shaped white spots, and yellow irides. 

 Strix Tengmalmi. Lath, ind. orn. 



Size of a Thrush: bill brown, with a white tip: 

 between the bill and eyes on each side a black 

 streak: face white, varied with brown: body ci- 

 nereous, with pea-shaped white spots: breast and 

 belly whitish, with dusky variegations : tail deep 

 grey with white stripes : legs feathered to the 

 claws: native of Upland in Sweden: observed by 

 Doctor Tengmalm. 



Var. 



DWARF OWL, 



This, which is described and figured by Monsieur 

 Levaillant under the name of La Chevechette^ is 

 allied to the immediately preceding, but appears 

 to be considerably smaller, since, according to 

 Levaillant 's plate, it can hardly measure more 

 than six inches. Like the preceding it is allied in 

 point of plumage to the Passerine Owl, being of 

 an olive-brown colour, variegated with white : the 

 head speckled, and the neck and coverts dashed 

 with that colour ; intermixed with blackish spots : 

 ridge of the wing and tips of the alulet w:liite: 



