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and eyelids white. It is larger than the S. aliico. 

 It is the Nacurutu sans aigrettes of D'Azara. 



The Spectacle Owl, Lath. St. perspicillata, Daud. 

 Lath. Hist. i. t. 15 ; and the Masked Owl, St. lar- 

 vata., Shaw ; St. jjerso7iata, Daud. Vail. O. A. t. 44, 

 are perhaps var. of age of the last species. 



There are some in America which have the tarsi 

 as well as the toes naked ; such is 



The Bare-legged Owl, Lath., St. nudipes of Daud. 

 Vieil. Amer., t. 16, fulvous brown, neck and wings 

 white, spotted beneath with long brown spots : legs 

 brown. 



See also St. griscata, Daud. Vail. O. A. t. 43. 



The Scops, (Scops, Savigny.) 



W^ith the ears flush with the head, have the imper- 

 fect disks and the naked toes of the last. 



The Scops, {St. Scops,) EnL 436. 

 Scarcely as big as a blackbird. Plumage ashy, more 

 or less clouded with yellow, prettily varied with small 

 longitudinal narrow black streaks, and transverse 

 vermiculated gray lines, with a suite of whitish spots 

 on the scapular, and six or eight feathers to each 

 crest. It is a very pretty little bird. 



Red and Mottled Owl, Str. asio, Lin. St. ncevia, 

 Wilson, A. O. t. 19, f. 1. 



Dark brown, mottled with black, pale brown, and 



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