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XORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Bubo virginianus, 



virginianus, P.ox.vp. 



GEEAT HOENED OWl. / ^^ , 



Asia bubo virginianus, Biiiss. Urn. 1, 4t>4, 17, 1760. Slrix Virginian", G.mki.. Syst. Xat. 

 I, 287, 1788. — Lath. Iml. Oin. p. 52; Syii. I, 119; Supp. 1, 40; Gen. Hist. I, 

 304. _Daud. Tr. Orn. 11, 210, pi. xiii. — Wils. Am. Orn. pi. 1, f. 1. — Boxap. 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y. U, 37 and 435 ; Isis, 1832, p. 1139. — AuD. Birds ^Vni. jd. Ixi, 1831 ; 

 Orn. Biog. I, 313. — Thomi's. Nat. Hist. Vermont, id. bwT. — Pead. Birds Mass. p. 87. 

 Bubo virtjininnus, BoXAl'. List, p. 6, 1838; C'on.sp. Av. p. 48. — Jaud. (Wil.s.) Am. 

 Orn. II, p. 257. — Dk Kav, Zotil. N. Y. II, 24, pj. x, f. 2. — Nvtt. Man. Orn. p. 124. — 

 Max. Cab. .Tour. 1853, VI, 23. — Kaup, Tr. Zool. Soc. IV, 1859, 241. — CofEs, Key, 

 1872, 202. Bubo virginianus atlaniicxts, Cassin, Birds of Cal. & Tex. I, 178, 1854. — 

 Birds N. Am. 1858, 49 (under 5. virginianus). Otiis virginianus, Stepii. Zobl. XIII, ii, 

 57, 1836. Ululavirginiana, James. (Wils.), Am. Orn. I, 100, 1831. Slrix viryiniana, 

 a. Lath. Gen. Hist. I, 306, 1821. Slrix bubo, S, L.\tii. Ind. Om. p. 52, 1790. — 

 Shaw, Zool. VII, 215. Slrix maximus, Baut. Trar. Carol, p. 285, 1792. Bubo ludo- 

 vicianus, Daud. Tr. Orn. II, 210, 1800. Bubo pinicola, Vieili. Ois. Am. Sept. pi. xix, 

 1807 ; Ene. Metli. p. 1282. 



Sp. Char. Adult $ (12,0.57, riiiladelphia ; C. Drexler). Bases of all the feathere 

 yellowish-rufous, this partially exposed on the liead above and nape, along the scapidars, 

 on the rump, and sides of the breast. On the upper surface this is overlaid by a rather 

 coarse transverse mottling of brownish-black upon a white ground, the former rather 

 predominating, particularly on the head and neck, where it forms broad ragged longitu- 

 dinal stripes (almost obliterating the transverse bars), becoming prevalent, or blended, 

 anteriorly. The lower feathers of the scapulars, and some of the lower feathers of the 

 middle and secondary wing-coverts, with inconspicuous transverse spots of white. On 

 the secondaries the mottling is finer, giving a grayish aspect, and crossed with eight 



sharply defined, but incon- 

 spicuous, bands of mottled 

 dusky ; primary coverts with 

 the ground-color very dark, 

 and crossed with three or four 

 bands of plain blackish, the 

 last terminal, though fainter 

 than the rest; ground-color of 

 the primaries more yellowish, 

 the mottling more delicate ; 

 they are cro.«sed by nine trans- 

 Terse series of quadrate dusky 

 spots. The ground-color of 

 the tail is pale ochraceous 

 (transversely mottled witli 

 duskj'), becoming white at the 

 tip, crossed by seven bands 

 of mottled blacki.sh, these 

 about equalling the light bands 

 in width ; on the middle feath- 

 ers the bands arc broken and 

 confused, running obliquely, or, in places, longitudinally. Outer webs of car-tufts pure 

 black ; inner webs almost wholly ochraceous ; eyebrows and lores white, the feathers 

 with black shafts; face dingy rufous; eye very narrowly encircled with whitish; a 



Bubo I'irsinianus. 



