Appendix, 



Length, fifteen inches. Ear tufts long and conspic- 

 uous. Above mottled brownish, grayish white 

 and tawny; below similar in color but with nu- 

 merous dusky cross-bars. Found in thickets 

 along streams in the interior valleys and moun- 

 tains. Apparently not very common in most 

 parts of the State. 



33. Short-eared Owl; Marsh-Owl; Jsio accipi- 

 trinus (Pall). 



Size about as in preceding species. Ear tufts short 

 and inconspicuous. General color streaked 



brown, buff and tawny ; lighter below; throat 

 white. Common winter visitant in the swamps 

 of central California. 



34. Spotted Owl; Western Barred Owl; Syrnium 

 Occident ale Xantus. 



Length nineteen inches. No ear tufts. General 

 color brown, buff and white, barred above and 

 below, but the head and neck brown, spotted 

 with white, and the bars everywhere more or 

 less broken into spots. An inhabitant of the 

 dense forests of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 

 Recorded by Belding as common in summer at 

 Big Trees, Calaveras County. 



3 5 . Great Gray Owl ; Scotiaptex cinerea ( Gmel. ) . 



Length twenty-eight inches. No ear tufts. 

 Grayish brown above, lighter gray beneath, 

 mottled on the back with some suggestion of 

 bars, the breast streaked and the belly barred. 

 A northern species occurring in northern Cali- 

 fornia rarely or accidentally in winter. 



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