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better with our last species. There seems to be 
little doubt, again, that the bird described by 
Nilson is identical with the passerina of modems, 
and on this account we would prefer retaining for 
this the title “ nudipes,” reserving the other for 
the small European species, which, we believe, 
has not yet been recorded as killed in Great 
Britain or Ireland. 
On comparing the woodcuts which we have 
given of the parts of N. Tengmalmi with those 
illustrating this description, it will be seen that 
there is a very marked difference, sufficiently so to 
render the birds generically distinct ; and in this 
case, perhaps the proposed term of Scotophilus, 
applied by Mr Swainson, might be used to desig- 
nate either the true Noctuce, of which we have 
placed N. Tengmalmi typical, or be given, as 
we have now done, to those of similar form with 
the bird we are describing. 
The principal distinction of form in these birds 
is the imperfect disk and raff of nudipes , and the 
small conchal opening. The annexed sketch will 
shew the comparative size in the two species, but 
being drawn from dried specimens, may not be 
quite correct in form. The legs arid feet of Teng- 
malmi are covered to the very claws with thick 
and soft downy feathers, while in nudipes the tarsi 
are more lengthened, the feathering more depressed 
and less downy, and it ceases at the junction of 
the tarsus with the toes, the latter being only 
