40 NORTH AMKIUCA?r BIRDS. 



B. Nostril prniiiinont, nearly ciroiilar, oponing niitoriorly; ooro somewhat 

 iiilliitt'ii. Tail siarccly more than half the wing. Hill lilack, 



'J. N. acadica. Wing, "j.'io tn n.SO ; tail, 2.00 to ;!.(I0; cnlnien, .50 ; 

 tarsus, .8(1; iniiklle tou, .00. Juv. Face dark brown; forehead and 

 crown hrown ; oeriput brown ; eyebrows and sides of chin white ; 

 throat and breasi umber-brown. (=" alhi/njiin," ^\m\v = " kirllnmli," 

 IIoY.) Huh, Cold temperate portions of Nearctic Realm. 

 ;!. N. harrisi.' Wing, ',.80 ; tail, 3.00 ; cnhiien, .50 ; tarsus, 1.00 ; middle 

 toe, .80. Juv. (!) i'acc and Ibrehead and anterior half of (;rown and 

 whole nape ochraeeous ; posterior half of crown and occiput black; 

 eyebrows and sides of chin ochraeeous; throat and breast ochraeeous. 

 A narrow belt of black .spots in rulT across throat. Hub. South America? 



Nyctale tengmalmi, var. ricliardsoni, Bon.\p. 



AUEfilCAN SFASBOW OWL; BICHABDSON'S OWL. 



Xlictalc rklumlsoni, HoN-Vl'. List. K. & N. A. Hirds, p. 7, 1838 ; Consp. Av. p. 54, 1850. — 

 (liiAV, Geii. 15. fol. sp. 2, 1844. — Cass. Hirds Cal. & Tex. p. 18,'i, 1854 ; Birds N. Am. 

 1858, ]). 57. — KA';r, Monog. .Strig. font. Oni. 1852, p. 105 (sub. Inii/iiKiliiii). — \\i. 

 Tr. ZoiJl. Soc. IV, 1850, 208. — Stkicki.. Orn. Svn. I, 176, 1855. — Maynaim), Birds 

 Kastcrn Mass. 1870, 133. —Gray, Hand List, 1, 51, 18t)9. .^liix tcujmahni, Uieil. 

 & Swains. F. B. A. II, 94, pi. xxxii, 1831. — Aui>. Birds Am. pi. ccdxxx, 1831 ; Orn. 

 Biog. IV, 599, 1831. — PicAn. Birds Mass. ]). 91, 1841. Kyctalc tcinjumhiii, Dai.l & 

 Bannistku, Tr. Clncago Aead. I, 18(>9, 273. KycMe tcn<jmalmi, var. rkhardsoni, 

 IiinGWAY, Am. Nat. VI, May, \^rl, 285. — t'oUES, Key, 1872, 206. 



Sp. CuAR. A<Jnlt (?, .1,880, Montreal, Canada, September, 18,''),3 ; Broome). T'pper 

 snrfare lirownish-olive or umber-brown. Forehead and crown with numerous elliptical 

 (longitudinal) marks of white, feathers overj'where with large partly concealed spots of the 

 same ; these .spots are largest on the neck and scapidars, on the latter of a roundish form, 

 the outer webs of iho.se next the wing being .almost wholly white, the edge only brown ; 

 on the nape the spots form V-sh.aped marks, the spots them.selves beingsomewhiii pointed; 

 below this is a transverse, less distinct collar, of more concealed .spots ;.wiiig-covcrts toward 

 the edge of the wing with a few large, nearly circular, white spots; .secondaries with two 

 transverse serie-i of smaller white spots, the.se crossing .ibout the middle, remote li'om the 

 end and base ; outer feathers of the alula with two white spots along the margin ; 

 priuiary coverts plain : primaries with four or five transverse series of white spots; tail 

 with the same number of narrow transver.se sjiots, Ibrming incontinuous bands, the sjiots 

 not touching the shaft, — the last spot not termin.il. Facial circle much darker brown 

 than the crown, and sp(vkled with irregular spots of white, these either medi.al or upon 

 only one web; .icro.ss the throat the I'irclo becomes paler lirown, withoi't the white spot- 

 ting. E}-ebrows and face grayish-white; lores .ind eyelids blackish. Lower parts white, 

 becoming pale ochraeeous on the legs ; sides of the bre.ist, sides, (l.ank.s, and lower tail- 

 eoverts with daubs of brown (.slightly lighter and more reddi.sh than on the b.ack), those 

 of the brea.st .somewhat transverse, but posteriorly they are decidedly longitudinal ; front 

 of tarsus clo\nlod with brown. Wing-formula, .3,4-2-5-0-7-1. Wing, 7.20; tail, 

 4..50; culmen, .60; t.insus, 1.00; middle toe. .07. 



A fem.ile from Ala.ska (49,802, Nul.ato, April 28,1807; W. 11. Ball) is considerably 

 darker than the specimen described .above ; the occiput has numerous circular .spots of 



» Kydnle, hm-rid, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Nat. So. Philad. IV, p. 157, Feb., 1849. — Ib. Tr. A. N. S. 

 II, 2d series, Nov., 1850, pi. v. 



