. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 38 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. was indebted for tlie e^ig the parentage of wliioh is so unquestionable. It is purely white, almost globular, and, except in shape, hardly distinguishable i'roni the egg of the domestic Hen. It is inches in length, and in breadth. Syrnium occidentale, Xantus. WESTERN BABBED OWL; SPOTTED OWL. Siiniiiim occidcniah, , P. A. N. S. riiihid. 1859, 193. — Baikd, liirds N. Am. App. pi. —CoVKs, Key, 1872, 204. Sp. Char. AduU ($, 17,200, Fort Tejon, Ca
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 38 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. was indebted for tlie e^ig the parentage of wliioh is so unquestionable. It is purely white, almost globular, and, except in shape, hardly distinguishable i'roni the egg of the domestic Hen. It is inches in length, and in breadth. Syrnium occidentale, Xantus. WESTERN BABBED OWL; SPOTTED OWL. Siiniiiim occidcniah, , P. A. N. S. riiihid. 1859, 193. — Baikd, liirds N. Am. App. pi. —CoVKs, Key, 1872, 204. Sp. Char. AduU ($, 17,200, Fort Tejon, California; J. Xantus. Typo of Xantus'.s do- scription). Above deep uniber-brown, much tia in S. ncbidosum. Whole head and neek with circular and cordate of white, one near the end of each feather; on the scapulars and back, ruinj), , and tail, they aro rather .sparse and more transverse, but of very irrcftular form ; they aro most conspicuous on the scapulars and larj^er wiuff-coverts. Secondaries crossed witii about six bands of paler Ijrowii, each s]iot {(rowing white on tlie edire of the feather, — the last band terminal ; primaries with .seven transverse sei'ies of pale brown, or brownish-white, quadrate spots on outer webs, the last terminal; these spots aro almost clear white on the third, fourth, lifth, and quills. Tail with aljout eight very narrow, rather obsolete, bands of pale brown, growing whiter and more distinct ter- minally, the last forming a con- spicuous terminal band. Ground- color of the lower parts dull white," somewhat tinged with ochraceous laterally ; everywhere with numerous transverse spots and bars of brown like the back, — this predominating anteriorly, the white forming spots on opposite webs ; on the lower tail-coverts the transverse sjiots or bars are very sharply defined and regulai', the brown rather the white. Face, eyebrows, and lores soiled brownish-white, the former with obscure concentric semici
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