. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. STRIGID^ —THE OWLS. 19 mill (only), thu smlUoo, lowor scapulars with a few obsolete spols of whito on lowfi- I'limary covi'i'ts <lusk-y, with transvciso wi-ios of Uaik motik'd <;'coiiiiii!,' somewhat o.;hracuous basally ; frrouiul-color of the piiiiiarios u'l'ayish, this especially pievak-iit on the inner quills; the basal third (or less) of all are ocin-aeeous, this ileereasin^' in extent on inner feathers; the jriayish tint is everywhere f
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. STRIGID^ —THE OWLS. 19 mill (only), thu smlUoo, lowor scapulars with a few obsolete spols of whito on lowfi- I'limary covi'i'ts <lusk-y, with transvciso wi-ios of Uaik motik'd <;'coiiiiii!,' somewhat o.;hracuous basally ; frrouiul-color of the piiiiiarios u'l'ayish, this especially pievak-iit on the inner quills; the basal third (or less) of all are ocin-aeeous, this ileereasin^' in extent on inner feathers; the jriayish tint is everywhere fhu'ly nu)ttled transversely with dusky, but the oehraceous is plain ; .•ros<ed by a series of about seven quadrate blackish-brown spots, these anteriorly about as wide "as the intervtMiiu^' yellowish or mottled grayish ; the interval lietween thu primary coverts to the (irst of these spots is about .8(1 to inch on the fourth (i\iill, — the spots on (In- inner and outer feathers apjjroaching the coverts, or even underlyiu;,' them; the inner primaries —or, in fact, the general grayish surface —has nutrh narrower bars of dusky. Ground-color of the wings like the back, this growing paler on the outer , and l)ecoiniug oehraceous basally; the tip approaching whitish; secon- daries crossed by nine or ten narrow bands of dusky. Ear-tults, wiih the lateral portion of web, ; this becoining while, some- what variegated with black, toward the end of the inner webs, on which the ochrai^eons is broadest; medial portion clear, tmvariegatcd black. Forehead and ])ost-auricnlar disk minutely speckled with lilackish and while; liieial circle continuous brownish-black, be- coining broken into a variegated collar across the throat. "Eyebrows" and lores grayish- white ; eye surrounded with blackish, this broadest anteriorly above and below, the pos- terior half being like the ear-coverts. Face plain oehraceous; chin and
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