-ig XORTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Above blackish-lirown, thinly relieved by an irregular sparse 

 spotting of yellowish-white. Beneath with the markings in form 

 of longitudinal stripes, which throw off occasional transverse 

 arms toward the edge of the feathers. Wing, 1.3.00 ; tail, G.80 ; 

 culmen, .90 ; tarsus, 1.55 ; middle toe, 1.50. Wing-formula, 2, 3 - 

 4, 1. Hub. South America. 

 B. BnAcnYOTi-s, Gould (1837). Similar to Otus, but car-tuft.s rudimentary, 

 and the second quill as well as the first with the inner web cmarginated. 



Colors ochraceous, or white, and clear dark brown, without shadings or 

 middle tints. Beneath with narrow longitudinal dark stripes npon the 

 wliiti.-ih or ochraceous ground-color ; crown and neck longitudinally striped 

 with dark brown an<l ocliraccou.-;. 



3. O. brachyotus. Wings and tail nearly equally .spotted and b.anded 

 with ochraceous and dark brown. Tail with about si.K bands, the 

 ochraceous terminal. Face dingy ochraceous, blackish around the eyes. 

 Wing, about 11.00-13.00; tail, 5.75-0.10; culmen, .60-.G5; tarsus, 

 1.75-1.80; middle toe, 1.20. Hab. Whole world (except Australia 'i). 



Though this genus is cosmopolitan, the species are lew in mnnher; two 

 of them {0. miljaris and 0. brachyotus) are connnon to both North America 

 and P^urope, one of them (the latter) found also in nearly every country in 

 the world. Besides these, South Africa has a peculiar species (0. cajJcnsis) 

 while Tropical America alone ])ossesses the 0- stygius. 



Otus vulgaris, var. wilsonianvis, Less. 2.^^Zq 



LONG-EAEED OWL ; LESSER-HORNED OWL. 



tSli-ix pcrcgrinator (?), B.\ut. Trav. 1702, p. 285. —Cass. B. Cal. & Tex. 1854, 196. Asia 

 pererjrinalor, STniCKi,. Orn. Syn. I, 1855, 207. Otus u-ilsonianus, Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 

 110. —Ghat, Gen. fol. sp. 2, 1844. — Ib. List Birds Brit. Mus. p. 105. — Cass. Birds 

 Cal. & Te.\. 1854, 81. — Ib. Birds N. Am. 1858, 53. — Cooi>. & Suck. 1860, 155. — 

 CouE.s, Prod. 1SC6, 14. Olns amcrkanus, BoxAP. List, 1838, p. 7. — In. Consp. p. 50. 

 — Wederb. & TitisTU. Cent. Orn. 1849, p. 81. — Kait, Mouog. Strig. Cont. Orn. 

 1852, 113. — In. Trans. Zoiil. Soc. IV, 18.19, 2.33. — Max. Cab. Jour. VI, 1858, 25.— 

 GiiAY, Hand List, I, 1869, No. 540, p. 50. Strix otiis, WiLs. Am. Orn. 1808, pi. li, 

 f. 1. — Rich. & Sw. F. B. A. II, 72. — Bosap. Ann. N. Y. Lye. II, 37. —In. Isis, 

 1832, 1140. — AUD. Orn. Biog. IV, 572. —In. Birds Am. pi. ccclxxxiii. — Reah. Birds, 

 Mass. 88. U7ula olits, Jakd. ed. Wils. Am. Om. I, 1831, 104. — Buewek, ed. Wils. 

 Am. Orn. Sj'nop. p. 687. — Nutt. Man. 130. Otm vulgaris (not of Fleming!), .Iar- 

 DixE, cd. Wils. Am. Om. 1832, II, 278. —AuD. Synop. 1S31, 28. — Girai'D, Birds 

 Long Island, p. 25. Ottts vulgaris, vur.' vyilsmiiamis (Ridgway), CuUes, Key, 1872, 

 204. Bnboasio, DeKay, Zoiil. N. Y. II. 25, ).l. xii, f 25. 



Sp. Char. Adtilt. Upper surface transversely mottled with lilackish-brown and gr.ay- 

 ish-white, the former predominating, especially on the dorsal region ; featlicrs of the nape 



p. 8. — BoNAP. Consp. Av. p. 50. Otus stygius, PucH. Rev. Zobl. 1849, 29. — Gray, Gen. B. 

 fol. sp. 12. — Kaup, Monog. Strig. Cont. Orn. 1852, p. 113. Asia strjg. > Otus siguapa, 

 D'Orb. Hist. Nat. Cuba Ois. p. 31, Tab. 2, 1840. — Gray', Gen. fol. sp. 9. — Bosap. Consp. 

 50 (Cuba). Otus communis, var., Less. Tr. Orn. p. 110. Hab. South America (Bi-azil, ?CHba, 

 St. rnulo, Katv). 



