. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . om America orthe Euro^oean continent, or was a tame bird that had escaped,can only be conjectured. It was captured, in March 1830, inan exhausted state, on board a collier ; and an account of thisoccurrence was presented to the Zoological Society, in 1835, byMr Thompson of Belfast. Remarks.—My account of the digestive organs of a male ofthis sp
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . om America orthe Euro^oean continent, or was a tame bird that had escaped,can only be conjectured. It was captured, in March 1830, inan exhausted state, on board a collier ; and an account of thisoccurrence was presented to the Zoological Society, in 1835, byMr Thompson of Belfast. Remarks.—My account of the digestive organs of a male ofthis species, with figures, will be seen in the fourth volume ofMr Audubons Ornithological Biography. They differ in noessential respect from those of the other owls; the oesophagusfour inches and three-fourths in length, and from ten to eleventwelfths in width ; the stomach an inch and five twelfths long,an inch and a twelfth and a half in breadth, its epitheliumvery soft and rugous ; the intestine eighteen inches long, fromfour twelfths to a twelfth and a half in width ; the rectum twoinches long; the coeca two inches and a quarter in length ;and the globular cloaca ten twelfths in diameter. 407 SYRNIA NYCTEA. THE SNOWY DAY-OWL. SNOWY OWL. Strix nyctea. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 132. Strix nyctea. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 57. Snowy Owl. Mont. Orn, Diet. Suppl. Chouette Harfang. Strix nyctea. Temm. Man. dOrn. I. 82. Snowy Owl. Syrnia Nyctea. Selb. Illustr. I. Noctua nyctea. Snowy Owl. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 93. Tail rather long, moderately rounded; plumage xchite., thehead and hack spotted, the wings, tail, and loicer parts barredwith dusky hroini. Young with larger markings. Male.—Excepting the Eagle-Ovvl, this is the largest spe-cies met with in Britain, where however it is of very rare oc-currence, and has not been found breeding. It is more robustthan any other species of its genus, with a very large round 408 SYRNIA NYCTEA. head, six inches in breadth including the feathers
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