34 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Symium nebulosum, Uray. 



BARRED OWL; "HOOTOWI." 



SMx ncbiihuri, FoitsT. Phil. Trans. XXII, 386 k 424, 1772. —Omel. Syst. Nnt. p. 291, 

 1789. — Lath. Ind. Oiii. p. r>8, 1790; Syn. 1, 133; Ooii. IIi.st. I, 338. — Daud. Tr. 

 Orn. II, 191, 1800. — SiiAW, Zoiil. VII, 245, 1839; Nut. Misc. pi. xxv. — Vieiu,. 

 Oi.s. Am. Sept. pi. xvii, 1807 ; Nouv. Diet. Hist. Xnt. VII, 32 ; Kiic. Moth. Ill, 1292. 

 — AVD. Birds Am. pi. .xlvi, 1S31 ; Oin. Biog. 1, 242. — Temm. Man. Orn. pt. i, p. 88 ; 

 pt. iii, p. 47. — Weuk. Atl. Ois. Eur. — Meveh, Tasclienl). Doutsch Vogclk. HI, 21 ; 

 Zusatzc, p. 21.— Wii.s. Am. Orn. pi. xxxiii, f. 2, 1808. — Ricir. k Swains. F. B. A. 

 II, 81.— BoxAP. Ann. Lye. N. Y. II, 38 ; Isi.s, 1832, p. 1140. — .Luin. (Wii.s.) Am. 

 Orn. II, 57, 1832. I'lida nchulosa, Stkpii. Zoiil. XIH, pi. ii, p. CO, 1815. — Cuv. 

 Reg. An. (cd. 2), I, 342, 1829. — James. (Wils.) Am. Orn. I, 107, 1831 ; IV, 280.— 

 BoNAPAnxE, List, page 7, 1838; Conspectus Avium, p. 53. — Goitm), Birds Enr.pl. 

 xlvi. —Less. Man. Orn. I, 113, 1828 ; Tr. Orn. p. 108. — Gray, Ocn. B. fol. (ed. 2), 

 p. 8, 1844. -De Kav, Zoul. N. V. II, 29, pi. x, f. 21, 1844. Si/niium nebulosum, 

 GiiAY, Gen. B. fol. sp. 9, 1844; List Birds Brit. Mus. p. 104. — Ca.s.s. Birds Cal. & 

 Tex. p. 184, 1854; Birds N. Am. 1858, 50. — GiiiAvn, Birds Long Island, p. 24, 

 1844. — WooDii. inSitgr. Kept. E.\pl. Zuni & Colorad. p. 63, 18.5.3. — Buew. (Wii.s.) 

 Am. Orn. p. 687, 1852. — Kaup, Monog. Strig. Cont. Orn. 1852, p. 121. —Ib. Tr. 

 Zoiil. Soc. IV, 256. — Stricki,. Orn. Syn. I, 189, 1855. — Max. Cab. .lour. VI, 1858, 

 28. — Duesseh, Ibis, 1865, 330 (Texas, resident). — CouEs, Key, 1872, 204. —Gray, 

 Hand List, I, 48, 1869. 



Sp. Char. Adult. Ilend, nock, breast, b.ick, scapular.'!, and rump with broad regular 

 tran.sverse bar.'? of ochraceous-whitc .ind deep umber-brown, the latter color .ilways ter- 

 min.-il ; on the upper surface the brown somewhat exceed.s the wliiti.«h in width, but on 

 the neck and breast tlic white rather predominates. The lower third of the breast is 

 somewhat differently marked from the upper portion, the Itrown bars being connected 

 along the shaft of the fe.ithor, throwing the wliite into pairs of spots on opposite webs. 

 Each feather of the abdomen, sides, (lanks, and lower tail-coverts has a l)road medial 

 longitudinal stripe of brown somewhat deeper in tint than the transverse bars on the 

 upper parts ; the anal region is plain, more ochraeeous, white ; the legs have numerous, 

 but rather faint, transverse spot.s of lirown. flround-color of the wings and tail browi,, 

 like the bars of the back; middle and secondary wing-coverts with roundish transverse 

 spots of nearly pure white on lower webs ; lesser co'crts plain rich brown ; seconda- 

 ries crossed by six bands of pale gr.iyi.sh-brown, passing into paler on the edge of each 

 feather, — the List is terminal, passing narrowly into whitish ; primary coverts with fom' 

 banc'"^ of darker ochraceou.'s-brown ; primaries with transverse .series of fpiadratc p.ale- 

 brown spots on the oetcr webs (growinc leepor in tint on inner quill.s), the last terminnl; 

 on the louf^-est are about eight. Tail like the wings, crossed with six or seven sharp' 

 defined bands of pale brown, the last terminal. 



F.ice pr.iyish-white, with concentric semicircular l)ars of brown ; eyebrows and lores 

 with black shafts; a narrov/^ crescent of lilack .against anterior angle of the eye. Facial 

 c'rcle of blacki.sh-brown and creamy-white bars, tlie former prevailing along the anterior 

 edge, the Latter more distinct posteriorly, and prevailing .icross the neck in front, where 

 the brown forms disconnected transverse spots. 



9 (752, Carlisle, Penn.). Wing-formula, 4 - .3, ■'')- 2, C ; 1 =0. Wing, 13.00; tail, 

 9.00; culmen, LO.'i ; tarsus, 1.90; middle toe, 1..J0. 



$. A little smaller. (No specimen marked $ in the collection.) 



llAn. Eastern North America, west to the Missouri ; Rio Grande region. 



