STRIGID.E. 85 



A very rare straggler from the American continent, where 

 it occurs from Canada down to Brazil. It has occurred about 

 five times in the British Islands. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. BLACK-BILLED 

 CUCKOO. 



Cuculus erythropthalma, Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. 

 p. 16 (1811). 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, Gould, Introd. p. xcv; Dresser, v. 



p. 231. 

 Cuculus erythrophthalmus, Harting, p. 124. 



Erythrophthalmus = red-eyed, from epv9pos + 606/aX/tos. 



Of this Cuckoo a single example has occurred in Ireland . 

 In America it is met with from Canada down to the Amazons. 



Order STRIGES. 



Family STRIGID^E. 



Genus STBIX, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 131 (1766). 



Strix = arpi%, a Screech Owl, in late writers ; from the root of Tpi%n> = I 

 cry sharply or shrilly. Of. strideo = I make a harsh sound, turdus. 



Strix flammea. BAEN-OWL. 



Strix flammea, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 133 (1766). 



Strix flammea, Naum. i. p. 483 ; Macg. iii. p. 473 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 61 ; Gray, p. 28 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 133 ; id. ed. 3, i. 

 p. 140; Gould, i. pi. 28; Harting, p. 8; Dresser, v. 

 p. 237. 



Aluco flammeus, Newton, i. p. 194. 



The White, or Bam Owl, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 126. 



Flammea = of the colour of flame, flamma. 



A resident throughout Great Britain and Ireland, not 

 usually ranging more than 40 from the Equator except in 

 Western Europe. 



