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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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feathers the coloursare darker. Tail brown, crossed by wide ash-colouredbands, spotted and striated irregularly with brown; beakyellow, a great part of it hidden by the feathers of theface. The Lap Owl has been figured by Dr. Richardson inFauna Boreali Americana; Audubon, Birds of Amer-ica; Gould, Birds of Europe; and Nilson, in hisFauna Scandinavia. 124 Rapaces—Nocturne. STBIGIDJE. Genus—Stbjx. Section I. Second Division—Nocturnes. Habits Nocturnal. LEAST EUROPEAN SPARROW OWL. Strix pusilla. Strix pusilla, passerina, ft acadica,a pygma, Glaucidium passerinum,it tt a tt Surnia passerina, Athene passerina, Datjdin ; Traite d Ornitliologie, ii., p. 205. (1800.)Linn^us; (Fauna Suecica and Systema Naturae. 1761.) ScHLEGEL. DEGLAND. G-melin; Syst. (1788.)Temminck; Man. (1820.)Schinz; Europ. Faun. (1840.)Bechstein; Naturg. Deut., ii.,p. 978. (1801.) VlEILLOT. Boib; Isis. (1826.) Beehm; V6g. Deut., i., p. 108, t. 8, f. i.C. Bonapaete. (1838.)Ketseeling and Blasius; p. 32. (1840.)Gbat.
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size.) LEAST EUROPEAN SPARROW OWL. 125 La Chevechctte, Le VaillanT; Ois: d Afrique, pi. 46.Petite Chouette d Uplande, and Chouette dAcadie, Of the French. Gemeiner Sperlingskauz, Of the Germans. Specific Characters.—Upper part of body greyish brown, punc-tured with white spots. Inferior parts whitish, with longitudinalbrown markings. Tail feathers marked with four or five largewhite spots on the inner barb, smaller on the outer, forming inthe male four white bands, and in the female three. The smallestof European Owls. Length, male six inches, female about seveninches. It is not without considerable hesitation that I haveapplied Daudins name to designate this bird, which isthe true S. passerina of Linnaeus. By the rule ofpriority, the name given to it by the distinguishednaturalist by whom it was first described, ought to beretained. But this rule, like all others, is open toan exception, and my excuse for breaking it in thepresent case, is, I think, a sound one. All the Englishorni

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