570 ORNITHOLOGY. 



List of apcolmcnf. 



A-2'1 i mh; " San Francisco, California, Febrnary 11, 18(58. 14J— 42-1— (?)— ll.V 



Hill, blui.sh-.vcUow, growing white at the point; eyes, bine blaeU." (Presented by Mr. 

 11. G. I'arker.) 



Otus WILSONIANUS. 

 Lioaig-earcd Owl. 



Ottis wUHonlanm, Lesson, Traite Orn., 1, 1831, 110.— Cassin, in liaird's B. N. Am., 

 1858, .W.— Baiud, Oat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 51.— Coopkr, 1, 1870, 4L'(). 



0/HS t)u/£ram var. wt/sonia»u.s, Allen, Bull. Mns. Comp. Zool., Ill, ISTl', 180.— 

 CouES, Key, 1872, 204; Clieclv List, 1873, No. 320; Birds N.W., 1874, 301.— 

 B. B. & 11., Hist. N. Am. Birds, III, 1874, 18.— Hensuaw, 187.J, 403. 



Seldom, if ever, did we enter a willow-copse of any extent, during our 

 cx[)lorations in the West, without starting one or more specimens of this Owl 

 from the depths of the thicket. This was the case both near Sacramento 

 and in the Interior, and in summer as well as in winter. In these thickets 

 they find many deserted nests of the Magpie, and selecting the most dilap- 

 idated of these, deposit their eggs on a scant additional lining. This 

 practice is so general, so far as the birds of the Interior are concerned, that 

 we never found the eggs or young of this species except as described above. 

 On the 27th of May we found a nest containing four downy young among 

 the -willows along the bank of the Truckee River. 



Jjixt of sped mem. 



no, i ,uJ.; Sacramento, California, Jnne 18, 18G7. 14i-.39.1-12i-10|-i|-13- 

 0.1 — 1. Bill, black; iris, brlgbt lemon-yellow ; toes, beneath, pale yellowish-ashy, their 

 scutelhe moie yellowish. 



74, <?,;«(-.; Sacramento,Jnne22,18C7.— 113— 301—8:3—01— {V—lg—4i— 3. liill, 

 browuish-blne ; iris, bright yellow ; e.\i)Osed sontelUu of the toes, pale brownishbkie ; 

 soles, ashy- whitish. 



3S9,9«r7.; Washoe Valley, Nevada, January 3, 1808. 14.1—39— 11 g—lOJ. Bill, 

 deep black; iris, rich gamboge-yellow; toes pale ashy naplesyellow beneath, the 

 scutelhe light yellowish-brown; claws, deep black. 



390, i ud. (mate of preceding). 14— 30- llj— 9J. Same remarks. 



424, "9arf.; San Francisco, California, January 31, 1808. 143— 395— (?)— lO.i. 

 Eyes, blight yellow." (Presented by Mr. H. G. Barker.) 



.530, eggs (2) ; Carson City, Nevada, April 27, 1808. Eggs deposited in a deserted 

 nest of tlic aiagpie (Pica hudsoniva). In a willow-thicket along the Carson Biver. Parent 

 shot. 



