. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . re white^minutely granular, laid in May and June. SPEOTYTO. (Gr. o-Treo?, speos^ a cave; tuto), txdo^ a kind of Owl.) Burrowing medium and rather small size. Head smooth ;
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . re white^minutely granular, laid in May and June. SPEOTYTO. (Gr. o-Treo?, speos^ a cave; tuto), txdo^ a kind of Owl.) Burrowing medium and rather small size. Head smooth ; no plumicorns ; ear-parts small, iion-oper-culate; facial disc incom-plete. Nostril opening inthe tumid cere. Wings otmoderate length ; 2d to4th quills longest; 1stabout equal to 5th; 2 or3 sinuate on inner websnear end. Tail very shoit,only about half as long aswing, even or scarcelyrounded. Tarsi extremelylong; about twice as longas middle toe without itsclaw, very scant-featheredin front, bare behind; toes bristly. The long slim 1 -^ ^^ /-£ Fig. 442.—Burrowing Owl, reduced. (Sheppard del. Nichols sc.) legs are quite peculiar (hg. e > 441), in comparison with any other N. Am. Owls, though the bareness of the feet is sharedto a greater or less extent by the Antillean genus Gymnasia, the Old World Ninox, and somfrother genera. Speotyto is a genus confined to America, where there are several > : OTHER OWLS. 647 of one or two species, of diurnal and terrestrial habits, noted for inliahitincr underirroundburrows. S. cunieularia hypogaea. (Lat. cuniciilaria, a bnrrower; Gr. vnoyfioi, hupogeios, under-ground. Fig. 442.) Burrowing UwL. Adult J* ?: Above, dull grayish-brown, profuselyspotted with whitish; the markings mostly rounded and paired on each feather, but anteriorlylengthened. Quills with 4 to 6 whitish bars, entire or broken into cross-rows of spots; tail-feathers similarly marked. There ismuch individual variation in the tone ofthe ground-coll
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