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ASI OTUS. THE MOTTLED TUFTED-OWL. 



LONG-EARED OWL. COMMON EARED OWL. HORNED OWL. 



Fi6. 24". 



Strix Otus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 132. 



Strix Otus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 53. 



Long-eared Owl. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Hibou Moyen Due. Strix Otus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 102. 



Long-eared Owl. Otus vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 85. 



Otus vulgaris. Long-eared Owl. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 91. 



Tufts conspicuous, projecting an inch and a half beyond the 

 plumage of the head ; upper parts light reddish-yellow, longitu- 

 dinally streaked, transversely barred, finely undidated with brown 

 and greyish-white ; lower parts light reddish-yelloio, with oblong 

 brown streaks, and faintly undulated ; facial disks zvhitish in their 

 anterior half, pale yelloicish-brown behind, the eye half surrounded 

 by dark brown. Young icith the facial disks yellowish-broicn, 

 and the dark markings on the lower parts broader. 



