SCOTIAPTEX. 250 



north to moro southern British Provinces; south to Goori;ia an<l 



northern Texas 3G8. S. nebulosum (Forst.)- Barred Owl. 



f. Top of toes naked, except a small pointed strip on outer side of basal joint 

 of middle toe. 

 Plumage essentiallj- as in S. nebulosum, but averaging slightly darker. 

 JIab. Gulf States, from Florida (and lower Georgia?) to Texas. 



368<T. S. nebulosum alleni Ridow. Florida Barred Owl. 

 a'. Ilead and neck deep brown, marked with roundish white spots; whole of lower 

 parts barred and transversely spotted with brown. 



Length about 19.00, wing 12.00-13.50, tail 8.50-9.00, eulmen .90. Eyy 2.05 

 X 1.80. Sab. Highlands of Mexico, north to New Mexico, Arizona, 

 California, and Lower California. 



309. S. occidentale Xaxtcs. Spotted Owl. 



Gents SCOTIAPTEX Swaixson.' (Page 256, pi. LXXVII., fig. 3.) 



Species. 



Common Chakacters. — Dusky grajish brown and grayish white, the former 

 prevailing above, the latter predominating beneath ; the upper surface varied by 

 irregular markings having a transverse tendency, the lower parts with the dark 

 markinits in the form of ragged longitudinal stripes, giving way to transverse bars 

 on the flanks; ftice grayish white, with narrow concentric rings of dusky; bill pale 

 yellow; iris j-ellow ; toes very densely clothed with hairlike feathers; length 

 25.00-30.00, extent 54.00-60.00, wing about lG.00-18.00, tail 11.00-12.50, culmen 

 1.00. 



a}. Plumage with dark sooty tints predominating, the inner webs of primaries with- 

 out a distinct whitish patch on basal portion. Nest usually in trees. JEggs 

 2-3, 2.16 X 1.73. Hab. Northern North America, breeding far northward ; 

 south, in winter, to northern border of United States. 



370. S. cinerea (Gmel.). Great Gray Owl. 



a'. Plumat^e with light mottled brownish gray and grayish white prevailing, the 

 inner webs of quills with distinct whitish patch on basal portion. Downy 

 young : " Upper parts very much darker than in the adult, dull (almost 

 sooty) chocolate-brown; the head covered with close dark feathers very 

 slightly tipped with whitish brown ; upper parts very little marked with 

 white ; facial disk scarcely defined ; under parts sooty brown cioselj' barred 

 with dull white ; wings and tail much darker than in the adult, the outer 

 primaries only indistinctly barred with dull grayish brown." (Dresser.) 



■ Scotiaptei SwAISS., Classif. B. ii. 1837, 217. Typo, Strix cinerea Gmel. 



XoTE. — The substitution of Clula Civ. for Seotiaptcx SwAIXS. i\s the nninc for this genus was an error. 

 Sirtx uralenrit Pall., the type of VMa, I am now convinced, from recent very c.ircful examination and crn- 

 parison with both S. cinera and SiHx ttridiiln LlS!». (the latter being the type of the genus .fi/rnium Sation.1, 

 is much moro nearly related, structorally and otherwise, to the latter, — so much so, in fact, that Uliili can rank 

 at most only as a subgenus of Syrnium. 



