. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXVII. HOBXED OWLS, ETC. 191 lives in the deserted holes or burrows of " prairie dogs other quadrupeds, including foxes and badgers. and Length, 10 ; wing, 6| (5f-7£) ; tail, S\; tarsus, If ; culinen, f. West- ern United States, including the Great Plains, north to southern British America and south to Central America. Accidental in Xew York and Massachusetts. The Florida Burrowing Owl (378a. S. c. floridana) of southern Florida and the Bahamas i
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush;. Birds; Birds. FAM. XXVII. HOBXED OWLS, ETC. 191 lives in the deserted holes or burrows of " prairie dogs other quadrupeds, including foxes and badgers. and Length, 10 ; wing, 6| (5f-7£) ; tail, S\; tarsus, If ; culinen, f. West- ern United States, including the Great Plains, north to southern British America and south to Central America. Accidental in Xew York and Massachusetts. The Florida Burrowing Owl (378a. S. c. floridana) of southern Florida and the Bahamas is much like the last, but averages slightly smaller; the legs are even more nearly free from feathers ; the lower parts have a more purely white ground color, and the upper parts a sepia-brown with pure white dottings. 12. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl (380. Glaucidium phaloendides. — A very small, southwestern, olive-brown, or reddish owl, with- out ear tufts, and with a chestnut-red or white tail crossed by about eight blackish-brown bars. The top of the head is sharply streaked with whitish. The olive-brown or reddish of the back is mainly free from markings excepting the shoul ders, which have large, round. white spots. This small spe- cies, like the screech owl, is found in some varieties, — a grayish-brown, a red one and some that are intermediate in color. Sometimes the red is so intense and uniform as to de- stroy the barring of the tail and the wings. (Ferruginous Gnome Owl.). Ferruginous Pygmy Owl Length, 6|; wing, 4 (3£-4£) ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, f ; culmen, f. Texas to Arizona and south to southern Brazil. 13. Elf Owl (381. Micropdllas ichitneyi). — A very small, western, mottled, and grayish or grayish-brown owl, without ear tufts and with a white or whitish, more or less interrupted, collar around the neck. The lower parts are white, with more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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