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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS. 



haliceUis, and very easily distinguishable from the North American caro- 

 linensis. Third primary in all the specimens is longer than the second. 

 In my specimens the iris was of a clear yellow without orange. Mr. 

 Ridgway assures me that in the two specimens of the American bird 

 {caroUnensis) he has collected the irides were scarlet (cf. Hist. North Amer. 

 B., Ill, p. 184, footnote). I should like to be informed whether the Old 

 World form at any age has a similarly colored iris. 



List of apecimena collected. 



No. 92727.— "Wings beyond tip of tail, 3T°^. Iris bright yellow. Bill in front of nostrils black ; at 

 base, cere, and mouth grayish bhio shai-ply contrasted with the black tip ; naked akin above the eye 

 somewhat lighter grayish blue; eye-ring blackish. Feet very light blue with a greenish tinge; 

 anterior border of the distal scales of the toes, as also the claws, blackish. 



Superfamily STRIGOIDEtE. 



Family STRIGID.^. 



99. Asio accipitrlnus (Pall.). 



1771.— Stryx accijji<ri«a Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs, I, p. 455 {vec Bechst.).— Jsto accipi- 

 trlnus Nkwton mY-drreW a Brit. Birds, 4 ed., I, p. 163 (1872).— Blakist. «fc 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 546.— /irf., Trans. As. Soc. Jap., VIII, 1880, p. 236.— /W. 

 ibid., X, 1882, p. 178.— Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 41.— Nelson, CrniseCorwin, p; 

 75 (1883).— Blakist., Ameud. List B. Jap., pp. 18, 65 (1884).— Turner, Aiak, 

 1885, p. 157.— Murdoch, Auk, 1H85, p. 201. 



1772.— Strixbrachyotusl. R. Forster, Phil.Trans., LXIL p. 384.— Midd., Sibir. Reise., II, 

 2 (p. 130) (1852).— Sciirenck, Reise. Auiurl.,I, p.246 (I860).— Radde, Reis- 

 en Sud. Ost-Sib., II (p. 122) (1863).— 0«ms i. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, pp. 26, 

 327.— Id. ibid., 1863, p. 89.— Id, P. Z. S., 1863, p. 262.— Jd. ibid., 1871, p. 344.— 

 Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 195. 



