2. Stryx Nyctaea. Die weisse Nachteule. = snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)

Description
Illustrationen aus: Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel. 2. Band, Wien: Typographische Gesellschaft, 1791.
Date 1791
Source http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00068671-7
Author Joachim Johann Nepomuk Spalowsky
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beytrag_zur_Naturgeschichte_der_V%C3%B6gel_2_Tafel_02.jpg

The snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large, white owl of the typical owl family. Snowy owls are native to Arctic regions in North America and Eurasia. Until recently, the snowy owl was regarded as the sole member of a distinct genus, as Nyctea scandiaca, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data (Olsen et al. 2002) shows that it is very closely related to the horned owls in the genus Bubo. However, some authorities debate this classification, still preferring Nyctea.