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STRTGID2E, 
RA P TO RES. 
STRIGID M, 
TENGMALM’S OWL. 
Noctua Tengmalmi. 
TLATE XIX. FIG. II. 
We have no satisfactory information with regard to the 
habits of this little owl during the breeding-season. 
It is common throughout the northern countries of 
Europe, inhabiting thick and extensive pine forests. In 
North America it has, according to Dr. Richardson, a 
wide range, embracing all the woody country from the 
Great Slave Lake to the United States. It most probably 
breeds, like the preceding species, in the holes of trees. 
