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ir,, i ad; Sacramento, June 22, 1SG7. 9— 22— 7— jj— i— Ig— 33— 2^. Bill.ligbt 

 browuisbblue; iris, leinoiijellow; toes, very pale ashy. 



Nyctale ACADICA. 



SaW'Wiict Owl. 



Strix acadica, GsiELiN, Syst. Nat., I, 17SS, 29G. {Adult.) 



Xijctale acadica, Bonap., Comp. aiul Geog. List, 1838, 7. — Cassin, in Baird's Birds 



N. Am., IS'tS, .>S.— Baikd, Cat. X. Am. Birds, lS."i9, No. 57.— Cooi'EK, Orn. 



Cal., 1,4;$().— CouES, Key, 1872, 2()."i; ClieL-k List, 1873, No. .328; Buds N.VV., 



1874, 315.— B. B. & R., Uist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 43. 

 Stn'.r alhi/rons, Siiaw, Nat. ^[isc, V, 1791, pi. 171. ( Yoitn^.) 

 Xyctale albi/ronD, C'ASSIN, Iliustr. Birds Cal., Tex., &c., 18.">4, 187; in Baird's lliids 



N. Am., 1858, 57. — Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 5G. — Coopek, Orn. 



Cal., I, 435. 



But a sing-le individual of this pretty little Owl was met with ; tliis one 

 was captured alive by Mr. O. L. Palmer, of our party, who found it asleep 

 and placed his hat over it. It was perched on the edge of an old Robin's 

 nest, in a dense willow thicket near the camp. 



List of specimens. 



941, 9 ad.; Thousand Spring Valley (Camp 27), September 24, 1868. 8— 20— (?) 

 — 43. Bill, deep black; iris, clear brij^ht gamboge yellow ; toes, pale naples yellow; 

 claws, deep black. 



Bubo vikginianus. 



Great Iloriicd Oul. 



/?. subarcticHS. 

 {Teniooh-nwoh' of the Washoes; Moo-hoo' of the Paiutes.) 

 Buho subarcticus, IloY, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., VI, 1852, 211. 



Bubo virginianus var. arcticus, Cassin, lUustr. Birds Cal., Tex., &c., 1854, 178. 



[Not Strir (Buho) arcticus, SWAINS., 1831, = albinescent arctic form.] — 



("ouES, Key, 1872, 202 ; Check List, 1873, No. 317.— B. B. & It., Hist. N. Am. 



B., Ill, 1874, CO, 64.— Uenshaw, 1875, 407. 



Ihdio rir^inianus var. pncificus, Cassin, Iliustr. Birds Cal., Tex., &c., 1854, 178; 



in IJaird's B. N. Am, 1858, 49.' 

 Bubo virginianus, Cassin, Baird's B. N, Am., 1858, 49 (part). — Baird, Cat. N. 

 Am. B., 18.~)9, No. 48.— Cooper, Orn. Cal., I, 1870, 418. 



The Great Horned Owl was found by us in all wooded districts, except- 



' Not of RiDGWAY, in B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. Birds, which is a northern littoral 

 form, of very dark colors, which appears to be unnamed, and which may bo distin- 

 guished as B. virginianus saluratus, UiDUWAY. 



