. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. STKIGID.'E, OWXjS.â(iEN. 142. 203 Var. KENNicOTTii. Large dark nortb-western form; general color sepia-browu, mottled and blotched with black ; 11 ; wing 7]-; tail 4. Alaska to AVashington and Idaho ; three specimens known. Elliot, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1867, C9 ; Id., pi. 27 ; Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, .311 ; Coop., 4i>3. Var. MAGCALLii.
. 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. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. STKIGID.'E, OWXjS.â(iEN. 142. 203 Var. KENNicOTTii. Large dark nortb-western form; general color sepia-browu, mottled and blotched with black ; 11 ; wing 7]-; tail 4. Alaska to AVashington and Idaho ; three specimens known. Elliot, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1867, C9 ; Id., pi. 27 ; Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, .311 ; Coop., 4i>3. Var. MAGCALLii. Small, pale, soutlicrn form ; size at the minimum above given. Southwestern United States. Cass., 111. 180, and in Bd., 5A IK, 1. S IL ll Owl ** Toes perfecthj nuled. â â Flammulated Owl. Above, gniyisli-browii, obscurely streaked with black, and finely speckled with white; below, graj-ish-white with some rufous mottlini;:, each feather with a shaft streak, and several cross-lines, of black; face and ruff varied with rufous ; edges of the scapulars the same, forming a noticeable oblique bar; wing coverts tipped, and outer webs of the quills squarely spotted, with white, or rufous-white, and tail feathers imperfectly barred with the same. 6J-7 ; wing 5J-5J ; tail 2J. A sm:dl owl with the form and much the general aspect of an ungrown *S'. , but the feathering of the feet stops abruptly at the toes. Mexico; North to Fort Crook, California, where found breeding {Feilner). Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, 96; Scl. and Salv., ibid. 1868, 57, and Exotic Ornithology, vii, 68, 99, pi. 50; Coop., 422 flamiieola. 142. Genus OTUS Cuvier. Long-eared Oivl. General plumage above, a variegation of dark brown, fulvous and whitish, in a small pattern; breast more fulvous, belly whiter, former sharply striped, and latter striped and elaljorately barred, with black- ish ; quills and tail mottled and closely barred Avith fulvous and dark brown ; face pale, with black touches and eye pat
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