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STRIGINtE. strix. 
second^ and the terminal part of the third, free and recurved. 
Tail of moderate length, arched, slightly rounded. 
32. 1. Ulula Tengmalmi, Gmel. Tengmalm’s Night-Owl. 
Plate CCCLXXX. Male and Female. 
General colour of upper parts greyish-brown tinged with olive ; 
feathers of the head with an elliptical central white spot ; those of the 
neck with a larger spot ; scapulars with two or four large round spots 
near the end, and some of the dorsal feathers and wing-coverts with 
single spots on the outer web ; all the quills margined with white spots 
on both webs, arranged in transverse series, there being six on the 
outer web of the third ; on the tail five series of transversely elongated 
white spots. Disk yellowish- white, anteriorly black ; ruff yellowish- 
white, mottled with dusky; throat brown, chin white ; lower parts 
yellowish-white, longitudinally streaked with brown; some of the 
feathers of the sides with two white spots ; tarsal and digital feathers 
greyish-yellow, with faint transverse brown bars. 
Male, 11, wing 6l|. Female, 12. 
From Maine on the east, and from Columbia River on the west, 
northward. 
Strix Tengmalmi, Tengmalm’s Owl, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 94. 
Tengmalm’s Owl, Strix Tengmalmi, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 559. 
33. 2. Ulula Acadica, Gmel. Acadian Night- Owl. — ^Little 
Owl. Saw~whet. 
Plate CXCIX. Male and Female. 
General colour of upper part olivaceous brown ; scapulars and some 
of the wing-coverts spotted with white ; the first six primary quills 
obliquely barred with white ; tail darker, with two narrow white bars ; 
upper part of head streaked with greyish-white ; disks pale yellowish- 
grey ; ruff white, spotted with dusky. Lower parts whitish, the sides 
and breast marked with broad elongated patches of brownish-red. 
Male, 17. Female, 8|, 18. 
From North Carolina on the east, and^from Columbia River on the 
west, northward. 
Little Owl, Strix pass erina, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 61. 
Strix acadica, Bonap. Syn. p. 38. 
Strix acadica, American Sparrow Owl, Swains. &^Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v.ii. p. 97. 
Acadian Owl, Strix acadica, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 137. 
Little or Acadian Owl, Strix acadica, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 567 : v. v. p. 397. 
GENUS HI. STRIX, Linn. SCREECH-OWL. 
Bill short, compressed, deep, strong ; upper mandible 
with its dorsal outline straight to the end of the cere, then 
