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GEN. 142. 203 
STRIGIDZ, OWLS. 
Var. kenNicormu. Large dark north-western form; general color sepia-brown, 
mottled and blotched with black; 11; wing 7}; tail 4. Alaska to Washington and 
Idaho; three specimens known. Extror, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1867, 69; Ib., pl. 27; 
Bp., Trans. Chicago Acad. 1869, 311; Coor., 423. 
4Var. MACCALLU. Small, pale, southern form; size at the minimum above given. 
Southwestern United States. Cass., Ill. 180, and in Bp., 52. 
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Fic. 
136. Screech Owl. 
** Toes perfectly naked. 
Flammulated Owl. Above, grayish-brown, obscurely streaked with black, 
and finely speckled with white; below, grayish-white with some rufous 
mottling, each feather with a shaft streak, and several cross-lines, of black ; 
face and ruff varied with rufous ; edges of the scapulars the same, forming a 
noticeable oblique bar; wing coverts tipped, and outer webs of the quills 
squarely spotted, with white, or rufous-white, and tail feathers imperfectly — 
barred with the same. 63-7; wing 54-54; tail 24. A small owl with the 
form and much the general aspect of an ungrown S. asio, but the feathering 
of the feet stops abruptly at the toes. Mexico; North to Fort Crook, 
California, where found breeding (Filner). Scu., Proe. Zool. Soc. 1858, 
96; Scz. and Saty., ¢bid. 1868, 57, and Exotic Ornithology, vii, 68, 99, 
RRO ORE TAO. Vie. el is wos ss Oe hw 6) |URLAMMEOLA. 
142. Genus OTUS Cuvier. 
Long-eared Owl. General plumage above, a variegation of dark brown, 
fulvous and whitish, in a small pattern; breast more fulvous, belly whiter, 
former sharply striped, and latter striped and elaborately barred, with black- 
ish; quills and tail mottled and closely barred with fulvous and dark brown ; 
face pale, with black touches and eye patches; bill and claws blackish. 
