STinoID.K — Till'] (l^VL^<. 1;) 



toe, L.'iO- 1.10. folois ol' viir. ;i/v(/i.'(r(,/((, l)iit los of llic oclii-iircoii-;, with 

 n frmitcr iircvalciicc of tin' .u'niy iiioUliiii.'. Tail witli fniir <iiiik Imiids. 



ll'ih. Au>triili;i vai-. ,1 ,' I i ra t ii I ,i ^ 



Will-'. ll.(Hi-11.7<i; l.iil, o.Kl-.'i.lO; ciiliiicii, .S.")-.!)(): tarsus, 'J,;!0- 

 2.1."); luiclillc IiM', 1.1!.')- l.l.'i. Siiiiio colors as var. dclicKtiild. Tail with 

 I'oiii- tki-k bands (sometimes a tiiico of a til'lh). //"''• I>"lii' i>i"l Kiisleni 

 AlHuii var. ;(((•(( «*■ I'd.' 



Strix flammea, \ai. pratincola, 1]onap. 



AMERICAN BABN OWL, 



S/ny /mitiiicold, Bns.w. I-ist, 18^8, p. 7. - Dk K.vy, Zoiil. JT. Y. II, 1844, 31, \i]. xiii. 

 I. 28. - <!r:.VY, (Ini. I!., fol. sp. 2. — f.vssiN, 15. Ciil. & Tex. 18.-)4, i>. l"(i. — Nkwii. 

 1". 1!. Itrji. VI, IV, lS.-,7, 7ii. — lltl'.liM. (1<>. VII, \S-,7, 34. — l'.\ss. Birds X. Am. ]S,')8, 

 47. _C,„-,.,s, I'hhI. Oni. Ariz. d'. A. X. S. I'liilad. LStitn, 13. — Sci.. P. Z. S. isr.ll, 

 3!>0 (Oii.Nacat. — Dlir.ssi;!:, IMs, IStir,, 33(t (Texas). — .' I!i:V.\XT, I'r. Host. Soc. 18t>7, 0.'. 

 (IJaliamis^. Sli-ii- iiir/itiK, GliAV, Mst Birds Brit. Mils. 1848, litii [nut S. jici-ln/n of 

 Lieiir. 1). — ill. Hand l.i.st, 1, 1809, 52. — K.vri', Moiidj,'. Xtrif,'. I'r. Zoiil. Soe. I.oiid. 

 IV, 18,"ii), 247. Slri.!-. nnii-ricdiKi, Aid. Syiiop. 183!», 24. — Blir.WKi!, Wilson's Am. 

 Orn. 18r.2, ()87. Sh-ir fliminai, M.\x. lSei.se Bi'a.s. II, 1820, 2t)r). — Wii.s. Am. (»rii. 

 1808, pi. I, f. 2. — ,l.\Mr.s, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn. I, 1831, 111.— Ari). B.Am. 1831, 

 pi. elxxi. — III. Orn. Bio^'. 11,1831, 403. — Seix, Av. Bia.s. I, 21. - Vio. Zool. .Icmr. 

 Ill, 438. — III. Zuill. Beeeh. Voy. p. Iti. — BoNAl'. Ann. X. Y. Lve. 11,38. — lu. I.si.s, 

 1832, 1110; <'oiisp. Av. p. .W. (iliAV, Lis! Birds Bill. Mils. 1844, r(4. — XriT. 

 Man. 1833, 130. riiihijlamwn, .Iaudi.nt., ed. Wilsou'.s Am. Orn. II, 183'2, 2(54. >Sfi-ix 

 JliiiiiiiKii, var. itiiicriaiiia, C'ofKs, Ke\-, 1872, 201. 



CiiAit. Averiiije phiiiiai/e. Groiind-rolor of the i)p]H'r purts Iiriirht or.anrro-oclira- 

 ceoiis ; tliis overlaid in oloiidiiigs, on nearly the whole of tho siirt'ieo, with a delicate 

 niottliii.!jf of hlackish and white; tho niottlin.ir contiiiiioius on the back and inner .scapu- 

 lars, and on the ends of the primaries more faint, while alon.aj their ed.ires it is nion; in 

 the I'orni of line dusky dots, thickly siiriiikleil. Each i'eather of the mottled surface 

 (excepting; the secondaries and primaries) has a medial dash of lilaclc, eiiclosiiiu' a 

 ronndi.sh or cordate spot of while near the end of the featiicr : mi tlie secondaries and 

 primaries, the mollliiiL,' is eoiivlensed into obsolete transverse bands, which are about four 

 in number on the former and live on the latter ; primary coverts deeper oran<;e-rufous 

 than the oilier portion.*, the moltlin.t:; principally at their ends. Tail or,iiijre-ochraceons, 

 finely niottleil — most densely terminally — with dii.sky, fadinir into wiiilisli at the tip, 

 and erossi'd by about five distinct bainls of mottled dusky. Face white, tiiifred with 

 wine-red; an ante-orbital spot of ilark claret-brown, this narrowly sinroiindiiii; the eye; 

 lUeial circle, from forehead down to the ears (behind which it is while for an inch or so) 

 soft oraiige-oclirae<'ons, similar to the u'niund-color of the np|)er parts ; the lower half 

 (from ears across the throat) deeper ochraceon.s. the tips of the feathers blackish, the 

 latter sometimes |)redoniinatinj;. Lower parts snowy-white, but tliis more or less over- 



1 Slri.r. ,/liiiiimr(i, var. (Hiiri/iila. SIrix dclicntiih, (^iri.n, P. Z. S. 183(), 140. — In. B. 

 Australia, I, jil. xxxi. — SriiicKT,. Orn. Syn. IS.'i.^, ISO. Jlnh. Australia. 



" SIrix jIaiiiDicii, var. jni-anica. SIrix jiirirniei', O.mki,. .S. X. 1, 20."i, 1789. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. p. 64, and Gen. Hist. I, 3.57. — llmisF. L. Trans. XIII, 139. — (!|;AV, Con. B. fol. sp. 5, 

 pi. XV. — Sykk.s, p. Conim. Zoiil. Soe. pi. ii, 81. — SruicKl.. Orn. Syn. I, 1855, 180. Pltudilus 

 javanicus, Ulytii, Journ. A.s. Soe. Beiig. XIX, 513. Strix JIuiiuiim, Peaks. & Bi.ytii. Ilab. 

 Java and Southern India, and Eastern Africa. 



