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7r>, i ad; Sacramento, June 22, 1SG7. 9— 22— 7— 5f— f— 1§— 3|— 2i. Bill, light 

 brownisb blue; iriSj leuionjellow; toes, very pale ashy. 



NyCTALE ACADICA. 

 Saw-wlict Owl. 



Strix acadica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 17SS, 29G. (Adult.) 



Xyctale acadica, Bonap., Couij). and Geog. List, 1S38, 7. — Gassin, in Baird's Birds 

 N. Am., 1858, 58. — Baird, Cat. IST. Am. Birds, 1S59, No. 57. — Cooper, Orn. 

 Cal., 1, 43G.— CoUES, Key, 1872, 205; Cheek List, 1873, No. 328 ; Birds N. VV., 

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

 Strix alhifrons, Shaw, Nat. Misc., Y, 1704, pi. 171. (Young.) 

 Nyctale alhifrons, Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., &c., 1854, 187; in Baird's Hirds 

 N. Am., 1858, 57.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, No. 5G.— Cooper, Oru. 

 Cal., 1, 435. 

 But a single individual of this pretty little Owl was met with ; this one 

 w;is captured alive by Mr. 0. L. Palmer, of our party, who found it asleej) 

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

 nest, in a dense willow thicket near the camp. 

 List of xpcciuicns. 

 941,9«(Z.; Thousand Spring Valley (Camp 27), Septeml)er 24, 18GS. 8— 20— (?) 

 —43. Bill, deep black; iris, clear briglit gamboge yellow ; toes, pale uaples yellow; 

 claws, deep black. 



Bubo vibginianus. 



Great Horned Owl. 



/3. suharcticHS. 

 (Tcmooh-mooh' of the Washoes; Moo-hoo' of the Paiutes.) 

 Bubo suharcticus, HoY, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., VI, 1852, 211. 

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

 fNot Strix (Bubo) arcticua, Swains., 1831, = albinescent arctic form.] — 

 Coues, Key, 1872, 202 ; Check List, 1873, No. 317.— B. B. & K., Hist. N. Am. 

 B., HI, 1874, GO, G4.— Hensiiaw, 1875, 407. 

 Bubo virginianus var. pacijicus, Cassin, Illustr. Birds Cal., Tex., &c., 1854, 178; 



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

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

 Am.B., 1859, 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 be distin- 

 guished as B. rirginianus saturatus, Ridgway. 



