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STRIX NEBULOSA ALLENI, Ridgw. 
Cu.—Similar to typical nebulosa, but toes wholly destitute of feathers or bristles, 
being perfectly bare to the extreme base; colors darker than in nebulosa, with less 
ochraceous, the tail scarcely barred on the basal half, and the bars on the breast much 
more distinct, as well as narrower and more continuous. 
Hab.—F lorida (Clearwater). 
The above characters I find to be constant in a series of three speci- 
mens (two ¢ and one?) sent to the National Museum by Col. 8S. T. 
Walker, of Clearwater, Florida. Not only are the toes perfectly bare, 
but the feathers clothing the tarsi are much shorter than in northern 
nebulosa, thus causing the legs to appear much more slender. The only 
feathering on the toes consists of a small pointed strip on the outer side 
of the first phalanx of the middle toe, reaching about to the second joint. 
d24, STRIX occidentalis (Xant.) Ridgw. 
Assuming that the Great Grey Owls are sufficiently distinet generic- 
ally from the foregoing, they should be known as— 
322. SCOTIAPTEX cinereum (Gmel.) Swains., and 
[322 4.] SCOTIAPTEX cinereum lapponicum (Retz.) Ridgw. 
236. Surnia ulula FUNEREA (Linn.) Rich. & Sw.—In the 10th edition 
of “Systema Nature” Linneus describes on the same page (93) Strix 
JSunerea and S. ulula, in the order here given; the former being based on 
“Fn. suec. 51,” the “ulula flammeata, Frisch. av. t. 9” being doubtfully 
quoted; ‘Habitat in Europa.” 8S. ulula is based upon “i'n. suec. 
52—Ulula, Gesn. av. 773, Aldr. ornith, 1. 8, c. 6; Will. ornith. 68, t. 13, 
Ray. ay. 26,n. 4;” the habitat also “in Europa.” In neither case would 
the diagnoses given determine the species independent of the references. 
In the 12th edition, however, S. uluia is mentioned first, with the same 
diagnosis and habitat, but with additional or more explicit references. 
_S. funerea follows, with an additional diagnosis which renders the species 
unmistakable, and a reference to “Strix canadensis,” Briss. av. I, p. 518, 
t.37, f. 2, which we know to be the American Hawk Owl. Furthermore, 
there is added to the habitat “ America septentrionali.”. It is therefore 
difficult to decide which of the two names has priority as the specific 
designation. If the S. funerea is to be regarded the same in both edi- 
tions, then this name, as occurring first on the page, would be entitled to 
that claim ; but thereis nothing whatever in the account of Strix funerea 
of edition 10 to show that it is anything more than the European Hawk 
Owl; or, in other words, the same as the species called on the same page 
S. ulula. As the matter stands, we prefer to take funerea of 1766 as the 
earliest date of the name as applied to the American bird, and to call the 
species S. ulula, the latter name being of certain application in the 10th 
edition, while it precedes funerea in the 12th. 
347. Falco FUSCO-CHRULESCENS, Vieill.—See Sharpe, “Catalogue of 
the Accipitres in the British Museum,” I, p. 400. 
