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 610/12. 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, Aud. 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, 71/2, 17. Female, 81/2, 18.