Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and America. 
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Prcrpaz—continued. 
America. 
Picoides tridactylus var. americanus.* 
Brehm. 
Arctic North America; south in the 
tocky Mountains to Fort Buchanan, 
Rarely in Massachusetts. 
It has the three outer rectrices white, 
the others black where exposed; the 
crissum white, and unbanded, and the 
supra-occular white stripe very narrow. 
(Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway.) 
Colaptes auratus.* (L.) Swainson, (Golden- 
winged Woodpecker. ) 
Eastern United States to the Rocky 
Mountains, and south to Texas. 
( Dresser.) 
Once in Greenland, according to Herr 
_ Méschler. (Newton.) 
Canada west to Nulato. (Baird, Brewer, 
and Ridgway.) 
Europe. 
Picoides tridactylus.* Lecep. (Three-toed 
Woodpecker. ) 
Northern Europe from Norway eastward, 
and the mountains of Central Europe; 
occasional in France and Lower 
Germany. (Dresser.) 
It has the two outer rectrices on each 
side white, banded with black; the 
crissum banded with black, and the 
supra-occular white stripe almost as 
broad as the infra-occular. (Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway.) 
Colaptes auratus. 
It occurred at Amesbury Park, Wilts, 
1836. (Marsh, Zool., 1859, p. 6327.) 
STRIGIDA, 
Strix flammea var. pratincola.* Bp. 
Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, Southern 
California, and Southern Atlantic 
States. Very rare as farnorth as New 
York. It differs from the European 
bird in being rather larger, and of a 
lighter colour. (Baird, Brewer, and 
Ridgway.) 
Asio otus var. wilsonianus.* Ridgway. 
All temperate North America, and has 
been found from the shores of Hudson’s 
Bay to the Rio Grande. 
The longitudinal stripes are absent above, 
and the transverse markings much 
more uniform than in the European 
bird. The lower parts also of the 
under surface are white. As a rule 
the American owls are darker than 
their European relations. (Baird, 
Brewer, and Ridgway.) 
Asio accipitrinus.* Pall. 
Most part of North America; and in 
Greenland, Newfoundland, aud the 
Fur countries in summery, and south 
to Guatemala and Cuba. In South 
America, from the Rio de la Plata, to 
the Straits of Magellen. (Newton’s 
Yarrell.) 
Strix fammea.* Linn. (Barn Owl.) 
British Isles and Temperate Europe 
generally ; east to Mesopotamia, and 
south to Quilimani, East Africa; and 
Angola, West Africa. Rare in Den- 
mark ; not found in Norway or Sweden. 
(Newton’s Yarrell.) 
Asio otus.* (L.) Leach. 
Owl.) 
Europe generally ; winters as far south 
as North Africa. 
In Asia it is found in China and Japan, 
and south to North-West India, 
(Dresser. ) 
(Long-eared 
Asio accipitrinus.* Pall. (Short-eared Owl.) 
The whole of Europe, except perhaps 
Iceland, and in Asia to Japan, being 
found in China, India, Assam, and 
British Burma, Bochara, Mesopotamia, 
and Palestine, but apparently not in 
Ceylon. A winter visitant to Egypt, 
the Islands of the Mediterranean, 
Algeria and Morocco; south to Abys- 
sinia, and has been found at Natal. 
(Newton’s Yarrell.) 
