424 BIRDS OF ILLINOIS. 



Surnia ulula caparoch (Mull.) 



AH£BICAN HAWK OWL. 

 Fopul&r ijnonjms. Hiidciniiiiiii Hawk Owl. ur Diiy Owl. 



.Strix fiinerea LiSN. 8. N. od. 12. i. ITtii;. IS* (piirt. but not of 1758).— 8w. & llicn. F. B.- A. II. 

 1831,92.— NuTT. Man. I. 1S32. li:..-.\UD. Orn. Bloc. Iv. 1SS4. :»>. pi. :t7s. 

 Siiniia fiiuiri'a Bp. 183X.— AUD. Synop. IKW. 21 ; B. km. I. 1M0.H2. pi. 27.— HiDow.Nom. 

 N. Am. B. 1881. No. 407.- Coueh, 2<1 Cluck Li«t. 1882, N<i. 480. 

 Strix vaparnch V. St. Mi'LLEU, Suppl. S. N. 177"J, W. 



Surnia ulula laparoih Stejneoeb. The Auk. 18X4, ;va. 

 SIrix huilfnuia Qmel. 8. S. i.pt. 1.1788. 2!«.— WiLH. Am. Orn. vl,1812,&l.pl. 50.11k'. «. 

 Surnia ulula vnr. huthnnia CouEs, Key, 1872, aii5; Cli.'i-k List. 1874. Xo.SSi; B. X. W. 

 1874, 311,-B. B. !k R. Hist. N. Am. B. iil, 1874, 7S. 

 ,S'in-Hia m/m((j (Linn.) Cass in Bainl'.s B. N. Am. 1858. (^I.-Baibd. Cat X. .\m. B. 1859. 

 No. 62. 



Hab. Northern Nortli Ameriea, south in winter to northern border of United Btiitvs 

 (Dakota, Montana. Minnesota. northern Illiniiis, Massaehusetts.etc). 



Sp. Chak. Ailull. Above ricli (lark vandyke-brown, darker anteriorly, h'Ss intense 

 and more craylsh on tail. A narrow streak of brownish blai k orieinatine over the mid- 

 dle of eye, and e.xtendini; baekward above tile upper edge of the ear-eovcrts, where It 

 forms an elbow passing downward in n broad stripe over the ends of the enr-eoverts; 

 eonlluent with this, at about the middle of the vortieal stripe, Is anotlier of similar tint, 

 whieh passes more broadly down the side of the naiie: bidween tlie last stripes (those 

 of opposite sidesi is another or median one of less pure blaek, extending from the oeei- 

 put down the nape. Every feather of the forehead, erown, and oeeiT>ut with u eentral 

 ovate dot of white: those anterior more eireular, on the oeeiput less numerous and more 

 linear. Between the lat<ral and posterior nuelial stripes the white prevails, the brown 

 forminc irrettular terminal and transverse or median spots; these grow more linear 

 toward the baek. Interseapulars plain; posterior seapulars varietrated with partially 

 ooueealed InrRe transverse spots of while, the lower feathers with nearly the whole 

 outer webs white, their eonrtnenee eausinc a eonspieuous elongated pateh above the 

 wine. Rump with sparse, irrecular, but generally transverse, spots of while; upper tail- 

 eoverts with broader,more irregular bars of the same, these about equal to the brown in 

 width. Lower feathers of the middle and seeondary wing-eoverls each with an ovoid 

 spot of white on the outer wob; seeondories crossed by about three transverse series of 

 longitudinally ovoid white spots (situated on the edge of the feather), and very narrowly 

 tipjied with tlie same; primary coverts with one or two less continuous transverse 

 series of spots, those found only on the outi'r feathers; primaries with about seven 

 transverse series of white spots, these indistinct except on the live outer feathers, on 

 which those anterior to the emargination are most conspicuous; all the primaries are 

 very narrowly margined with white at the ends. Tail with seven or eight very narrow 

 t>ands of white, those on the middle feathers purely so, becoming obsolete exteriorly; 

 the last is terminal. Eyebrows, lores, and face grayish white.the grayish appearance 

 caused by the blackish shafts of the feathers; that of the ftt'C continues (contracting 

 considerably! across the lower part of the throat, separating a large space of dark brown, 

 which covers nearly the whole throat, from an indistinct collar of the same extending 

 across the Jugulum-this collar uniting the lower ends of the auricular and cervical 

 dusky bands, the space between which is nearly clear white. Ground-color of the lower 

 parts white, but everywhere with numerous very reguliu- transverse bars of deep brown, 

 of a tint more reddish thon the back, the brown bars rather more than half as wide as the 

 white ones; across the upper part of the breast (beneath the dark gular collar) the white 

 invades very much and reduces the brown, forming a broad lighter belt across the Jugu- 

 lum; below this the brown bars increase in wiiith, their aggregation tending somewhat 

 to a sulTusion, giving the whiti' jugular bi'lt betti'r dellulliou. On the legs and toes the 

 bars are narrower, more dletaut, and less regular. 



