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tail black, but barred with three slaty whitish bars ; upper parts blackish 

 brown shading into slaty on tertials and wing coverts, and into bluish slate 

 on tail coverts. 



Subgenus Tinminculus. 



860a. Falco sparverius deserticola Mears. Desert Sparrow hawk. Com- 

 mon ; nests on Destruction island, also on the mainland. 



Description : Wings bluish gray shading into rufous gray ; back and tail 

 rufous, latter with black terminal band ; top of head bluish, with rufous 

 crown patch ; cheeks with two black stripes. Length of bird about 11 ; wing 

 about 8 ; tail 6. 



Nests usually in hollow trees. Eggs usually 5, of a cinnamon buff to pure 

 white, sprinkled or blotched with brown. 



Genus Pandion. 



364. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis Gmel. Fish hawk. Common. 



Description : Head white streaked with blackish, with dark streak on side; 

 breast blotched with brown ; rest of under parts and neck pure white ; tail 

 narrowly tipped with white and barred with blackish bands ; upper parts 

 brownish to blackish brown. 



Nest : The nest is usually built on a high tree. It is constructed of sea- 

 weed, rushes, moss, sticks, etc. Eggs 2 and 3, oblong in shape, of a grayish 

 white color, speckled over with light reddish dots. 



The food of this bird is fish. 



Family Bubonid.e: Horned Owls, [etc. 

 Genus Syrnum. 

 369a. Syrnum occidentalis caurinum Merriam. Northern Spotted owl. 

 Rather rare. 



Description : Head and neck coarsely spotted with round white spots » 

 upper parts in general a dark brown ; under parts whitish to slaty white- 

 Length of bird 19. 



Genus Nyctala. 



372a. Nyctala acadica scotsea Osgood. Northwest Saw-whet owl. Com- 

 mon. 



Description : Legs, feet and flanks refescent ; eye rings whitish ; face 

 heavily streaked with dark brown ; under parts white, heavily streaked with 

 reddish brown. Length of bird 8. 



Nest usually in a hollow tree or a deserted woodpecker hole. Eggs usu- 

 ally about 7. 



Genus Megascope. 



S73d. Megascops asio kennicottii Elliot. Kennicott Screech owl. Rare. 



Description: Upper parts sooty brown, much mottled and streaked with 

 black, as are the lower parts also; legs and feet mottled with buff over a 

 rich buffy brown. 



Genus Nyctea. 



376. Nyctea nyctea Linn. Snowy owl. Common. Two were killed by In- 

 dians and brought to me for identification. Both were killed in 

 the village itself. 



Description : Color of plumage practically wholly white ia the male, some 

 darker in the female ; both sometimes marked with spots and bars of slaty 

 gray. Length about 22. 



Genus Glaucidium. 



389. Glaucidium gnoma californicum Scl. California Pigmy owl. This is 

 a very common owl. 

 Description: Under parts white, chest washed with reddish brown, rest 



