. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . , withfour, five, or six bars of rounded yellowish white or palebrown spots, and whitish at the tip: it is nearly even, andconsists of twelve broad rounded feathers: beneath it is dullgreyish brown, faintly barred with yellowish brown; tailcoverts, as the back; under tail coverts, unspotted; legs,rather long, greyish j^ellow, feathered with short hairy j^ellowishwhite feathers, tinged with rufous, \vith a few dusky spots;toes, greyish yellow, slightly covered with bristly feathers onthe upper surface; underneath they are rough; claws,
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . , withfour, five, or six bars of rounded yellowish white or palebrown spots, and whitish at the tip: it is nearly even, andconsists of twelve broad rounded feathers: beneath it is dullgreyish brown, faintly barred with yellowish brown; tailcoverts, as the back; under tail coverts, unspotted; legs,rather long, greyish j^ellow, feathered with short hairy j^ellowishwhite feathers, tinged with rufous, \vith a few dusky spots;toes, greyish yellow, slightly covered with bristly feathers onthe upper surface; underneath they are rough; claws, yellowishbrown, dusky or black at the tips, strong, and not muchcurved. The female resembles the male, but is larger. Length, tento eleven inches; the wings expand to the width of one footten inches or over. In the young bird the head is rufous grey, clouded withwhite; the large round spots on the back, and the bars onthe tail become gradually more marked than in the oldbirds, and the streaks on the breast appear. In age thebirds become TENGMALMS , 167 TENGMALMS OWL. TENGMALM S NIGHT OWL. Sirix Tencjmalmi, Gmelin. Latham. fu7ierea, LiNNiEUS. Nocl-ta Teugmahni, Jenyns. —^omc species of Owl. Tengmalmi—Of Tcngmalm. This pretty little Owl received its specific name fromGmelin, in compliment to the discoverer, Dr. Tengmalm, anable ornithologist, who lived near Stockholm, in Sweden. It inhabits principally the northern parts of Europe—Russia, Sweden, Livonia, and Norway, and has also been metwith in German}-, France, and Transalpine Italy. It is saidto be very abundant in North America. In Yorkshire, one was killed at Hunmanby, in the East-Hiding, by Admiral Mitfords gamekeeper, about 1847. In1836 a specimen, recently shot, was purchased in a poulterersshop in London; another was killed- the same year in Kent;one on the sea-coast, near Marsden, in the county of Durham,in October, 1848; and one near Morpeth, in Northumberland,in 1812. There has as ye
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