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95.* Syrnium nebulosum Gray. Barked Owl. 



Strix helmlosa Forster, Trans. London Philos. Soc, LXII, 386, 424, 1772. — 

 Wilson, Am. On., IV, 61, pi. xxxiii, fig. 2, 1812. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., 

 I, 242, pi. xlvi, 1832. 



Syrnium nabulosum Gould, Birds of Europe, I, pi. xlvi, 1832. — Audubon, 

 Synop., 27, 1839. — Cassin, Illustr. Birds of Cal. and Texas, 184, 1654.— 

 Brewer, N. Am. 061., I, 72, 1857. — Cassin, Band's Birds N. Am., 56, 

 1858. 



Ulula nebulosa Bonap., Geog. and Comp. List, 1, 1838. — .donap., conspect. 

 Gen. Av., I, 53, 1851. 



Strix chichictli Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 296, 1788. 



Strix acclamator Bartram, Travels, 289, 1791. 



Strix fernandica ShaW, Gen. Zoiil., VII, 263, 1809. 



Very abundant. The only species of owl at all common. Their 

 ludicrous notes are heard at night everywhere, and not unfrequently 

 during the day. At night they often startle the traveller by their 

 Strange utterances from the trees over his head. 



The four Florida specimens of this species before me are several shades 

 darker than New England specimens, one only of a considerable series of 

 the latter being as dark as the lightest-colored Florida example. The 

 Florida specimens are also a little smaller than the northern ones. 



Measurements of Florida Specimens of Syrnilm: nebulosum. 



96.* OtUS brachyotUS Boie. Short-eared Owl. 

 Strix hrachyotus Gmelin, Syst. Nat, I, 2b3, 1788. — Forster, Trans. Lond. 



Phil. Soc., LXII, 384, 1772. — Wilson, Am. Orn., IV, 64, pi. xxxiii, fig. 3, 



1812. —Bonap., Ann. N. Y. Lye. N. Hist., II, 37, 1828. — Audubon, Orn. 



Biog., V, 373, pi. ccccxxxii, 1835. — Rich. & Swain., Faun. Bor. Am., I, 



75, 1831. 

 Otus hrachyotus Boie, Isis, 1822, 549. —Audubon, Syn., 28, 1839. — Cassin, 



Illust. Birds Cal. and Texas, 182, 1854. — G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I, 40. 



— Ibid., Cat. Brit Birds, 27, 1863. 

 Otus palustris Brehm, Viig. Dcutschl., I, 124. 

 Brachyotus palustris Bonap., Geog. and Comp. List, 7, 1838. 

 Brachyotus Cassmi Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., V, 321, 1856. — 



Brewer, N. Am. 061., 1, 68, 1857. — Casbin, Baird's Birds N. Am., 54, 1858. 



