. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 150 BTBDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Genus SYRNIUM Saviqny. Syrnium nebulosum (Forst.). Barred Owl; Rain Owl. Description CPlate 87). "Head large, without ear-tufts ; tail rather long; upper parts light ashy-brown, frequently tinged with dull-yellow, with transverse narrow bands of white, most numerous on the head and neck behind, broader on the back ; breast with transverse bands of brown and white ; abdomen ashy-white, with longitudinal stripes of brown; tais
. Report on the birds of Pennsylvania : with special reference to the food habits, based on over four thousand stomach examinations. Birds. 150 BTBDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. Genus SYRNIUM Saviqny. Syrnium nebulosum (Forst.). Barred Owl; Rain Owl. Description CPlate 87). "Head large, without ear-tufts ; tail rather long; upper parts light ashy-brown, frequently tinged with dull-yellow, with transverse narrow bands of white, most numerous on the head and neck behind, broader on the back ; breast with transverse bands of brown and white ; abdomen ashy-white, with longitudinal stripes of brown; taisi and toes ashy-white, tinged with fulvous, generally without spots, but fre- quently mottled and banded with dark-brown ; quills brown, with six or seven tranverse bars, nearly pure-white, on the outer webs, and ashy-fulvous on the inner webs ; tail light brown, with about live bands of white, generally tinged with reddisli- yellow ; discal feathers* tipped with white; face ashy-white, with lines of brown, and a spot of black in front of the eye ; throat dark-brown ; claws horn-color ; bill yellow ; irides bluish-black. Sexes alike. Total length about 20 inches ; extent about 44; wing 13 to 14; tail 9 ; B B. N. A. HabitnL—Eastern United States, west to Minnesota and Texas, north to Nova Scotia and Quebec. The Ban-ed Owl is readily distinguished from other species by its large size, yellow-colored bill and its black eyes. BaiTed Owls are ex- ceedingly abundimt in many of the southern states, where they are known by the names of " Hoot and Swamp ; In Pennsylvania this owl is found all months of the year, and in many of the mountainous and liea\\v-wooded regions it is the most common of all the owls. The BaiTed Owl lays its eggs in- a hollow tree, or in a deserted nest of a hawk or crow; the white eggs are a little under 2 inches long by about IJ Avide. The BaiTed and Great Horned Owls are the only species, in this locality, whose depn^dations in the
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