STRIGID.E — THE OWLS — SYRXIUM. 



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Syrnium cinereum, Gmelin. 



THE GEEAT GRAY OWL. 



Strh cinerea, Gmelin, Syst. Xat. I. 1788. 291. — Boxaparte, Am. Oni. ; pi. 23, f. 2.— 



Addubox, Orn. Biog. ; pi. .35.3. — Xuttall, Man. I. 134. 

 Si/niiiim cinereum, Bonaparte, B. of Eur. and Am. 6. — Aodcbon, Birds Amer.; pi. 58.— 



Cassin, p. R. Rep. Birds IX. 56. —Newberry, Yl. iv. 77. — Cooper, XII. iv. Zool. 



of W. T. 156. — Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. IV. 1859, 256. 



Sp. Char. The lar<;est Xorth American owl. Above smoky or ashy-brown, mottled 

 and barred with ashy-white ; beneath ashy-white, with numerous dark ashy-brown stripes, 

 especially on the breast, and with bars of the same on the abdomen, legs and lower tail 



coverts. Quills brown, with almut five wide irrefjular bands of ashy-white ; tail similar, 

 with five or six bands, and mottled with dark brown. Feathers of the disk, on the neck 

 tipped with white ; eye nearly encircled by a black spot ; radiating feathers round the eye, 

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