STRIGID^ — THE OWLS — STRIX. 



415 



Strix pratincola, Bonaparte. 

 THE BAKN-OWL. 



Strix flammea, Wilson, Am. Orn. VI. 57; pi. 50, f. 2. — AuDunoy, Birds Amcr. pi, 171 

 (not of Liiin.'ciis, whiuli is an European .species). 



Strix pradmola, Box.vp.\nTE, Comp.Llst, 18.38, 7. — De Kay, Xat. Hist. N. Y. I. 31 ; pi. 13, 

 f. 28. — Newberky, r. R. Rep. VI. ii. 76. — Cvssin, Birds, IX. 47. — IIeermasn, 

 X. vi. 34. — CouES, Pr. Acad. Phil. 18G6, 4?. 



Strix Amertanm, Audubon, Orn. Biog. II. 18.34, 421 ; oct. cd. I. 127 ; [il. 34. — Ncttall, 

 Man. I. 2d ed. 149 (not of Gmelin, whicli is Olus Wilsoiiianus, according to Bona- 

 parte '). 



Strix perJalii, Kaui', Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. V. 1859, 247. 



Sp. Cn.\R. Above pale fliwR-onlor, ox tawny Ijrownisli-yollow, frequently very pale, 

 nearly every feather with a snuill subterniiual black .spot, sueceeded by a white one. Be- 





S. prnlinrola 



neath, generally pale fawn-color, but frecpu'utly ]iure white, with small lanceolate and 

 circidar spots of brownish-black ; under coverts of wings and tail white ; ipiills fawn- 



