SCREECH OWL— MOTTLED OWL— RED OWL. 1(»5 



Sr. Char. Above pale ashy-brown, with streaks of brownish-black, and irregular mottlings 

 of the same mixed with cinereous ; beneath ashy-white with brownish-black stripes, and transverse 

 lines of the same ; face, throat, and tarsi ashy-white, irregularly lined and mottled with pale 

 brownish ; quills brown with transverse bands, nearly white on the outer webs ; tail pale ashy- 

 brown, with about ten transverse narrow bands of pale cinereous ; under wing coverts white, the 

 larger tipped with black. [Sco/is navia.) 



Younger. Entire upper parts pale brownish-red with streaks of brownish-black, especially on 

 the liead and scapulars ; face, throat, under wing coverts, and tarsi, reddish-brown ; tail rufous 

 with bands of brown, darker on the inner webs. (Scops asio.) 



Young. Entire plumage b.mded with ashy-white and jiale brown ; wings and tail p.ile rufous. 



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