. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. ii8 BIRDS OF AMERICA BURROWING OWL Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea {Bonaparte) A. O. U. Other Names.— Billy Owl; Ground Owl. General Description.— Length, gyi inches. Color above, brown spotted with light; below, whitish, barred with brown. Tail, square or slightly rounded, only about half as long as wing; head, relatively small; legs, long; 3 outer primaries with inner webs cut away. Color.— Adults: Above, brown with pale brownish- buff to dull buffy-white spots, these largest on back, shoulders, and wing-coverts, where often roundish, and on hindnec
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. ii8 BIRDS OF AMERICA BURROWING OWL Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea {Bonaparte) A. O. U. Other Names.— Billy Owl; Ground Owl. General Description.— Length, gyi inches. Color above, brown spotted with light; below, whitish, barred with brown. Tail, square or slightly rounded, only about half as long as wing; head, relatively small; legs, long; 3 outer primaries with inner webs cut away. Color.— Adults: Above, brown with pale brownish- buff to dull buffy-white spots, these largest on back, shoulders, and wing-coverts, where often roundish, and on hindneck, where mostly longitudinal, smaller on crown, where often intermixed with streaks of the same color; secondaries with the spots arranged in 4 or 5 transverse series, the outer webs of primaries with similar spots, which become larger on longer quills; tail, crossed by S or 6 narrow, interrupted bands of pale dull buffy, usually suffused with deeper buff and narrowly tipped with pale buff; a stripe over eye 0} dull broii'iiisli-'ichite, the lores and around eye the same color but usually stained with pale brown, the former with shafts of the feathers, black; side of head, brown, indistinctly streaked with paler; chin, cheeks, and lower side of head, immaculate dull white or buffy white, this white area extending upward at rear end behind lower half, or more, of ear region ; throat, buff, barred with dark brown, the bars usually most developed (sometimes coalesced) behind, forming a transverse band, which on each side is continued upward behind the whitish area; foreneck and upper center of chest, immaculate buffy white; rest of under parts, pale buff, deeper buff and immaculate on thigh plumes and thighs Number 378 (the feathering of leg, the anal region, center of lower ab- domen, and the under tail-coverts likewise immaculate), elsewhere broadly barred with brown, the brown pre- dominating on chest or upper breast (especially later- ally), where the buff is often in fo
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