. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. 86 STRIGID^ : OWLS. Family STRIGID^: Owls. BARN OWL. Aluco flammeus pratincola {Bp) Coues. Chars. Facial disc liiglily developed. No tufts on. head. Ex- ternal ear very large, operculate. Plumage very downy. Colors above, tawny, clouded with ashy and whitish, speckled with black- ish. Below, varying from whitish to fulvous, with sparse, sharp blackish spots ; face white or fulvous, dark about the eyes, and bordered with dark brown. Wings and tail barred with brown,
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. 86 STRIGID^ : OWLS. Family STRIGID^: Owls. BARN OWL. Aluco flammeus pratincola {Bp) Coues. Chars. Facial disc liiglily developed. No tufts on. head. Ex- ternal ear very large, operculate. Plumage very downy. Colors above, tawny, clouded with ashy and whitish, speckled with black- ish. Below, varying from whitish to fulvous, with sparse, sharp blackish spots ; face white or fulvous, dark about the eyes, and bordered with dark brown. Wings and tail barred with brown, and mottled like the back. Feet bristly, but not densely feathered. Length, ; wing, ; tail, ; bill whitish; toes yellowish. Of the thirteen species of Owls found in New Eng-. FiG. 15. — Foot ok Barn Owl. Natural size. land, the present is the rarest, excepting the Burrowing Owl, which only occurs accidentally. The Barn Owl is little more than a straggler to southern New England; and the recorded instances of its occurrence are very few. Many years ago, a specimen was taken by the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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