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ASIO ACCIPITEINUS. 



(SHORT-EARED OWL.) 



Strix noctua major, Briss. Orn. i. p. 511 (1760). 



La Chouette ou la grande ChevSche, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. i. p. 372, pi. 27 (1770). 

 Stryx accipitrina, Pall. Reis. Buss. Reichs, i. p. 455 (1771). 

 Noctua minor, S. G. Gin. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xv. p. 447, pi. 12 (1771). 

 Strix brachyotus, J. R. Forster, Phil. Trans, lxii. p. 384 (1772). 

 Strix arctica, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, ii. pi. 51 (1788). 

 Strix palustris, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. ii. p. 344 (1791). 

 Strix tripennis, Schrank, Fauna Boica, i. p. 112 (1798). 

 Strix caspia, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 272 (1809). 

 Stryx cegolius, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 309 (1811). 

 Otus microcephalics, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 11 (1816). 

 Strix brachyura, Nilss. Orn. Suec. i. p. 62 (1817). 



Otus brachyotos (Forst.), Steph. in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pi. 2, p. 57 (1826). 

 Strix sandwichensis, Bloxh. in Byron's Voy. of H. M.S. Blonde, App. p. 250 (1826). 

 Asio ulula, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 116 (1828). 

 Otus palustris, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 124 (1831). 

 Otus agrarius, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 124 (1831). 

 Brachyotus palustris (Bechst.), Bp. Comp. List, p. 7 (1838). 

 Asio brachyotus (Forst.), Macgill. Brit. Birds, iii. p. 461 (1840). 

 Mgolius brachyotus (Forst.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 32 (1840). 

 Brachyotus palustris americanus, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 51 (1850). 

 lOtus breviauris, Licht. Nomenc. Av. p. 6 (1854). 

 Brachyotus mgolius (Pall.), Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 541. 

 Brachyotus agrarius, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 70. 

 Brachyotus leucopsis, Brehm, ut supra. 



Brachyotus cassinii, Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Flist. 1856, p. 321. 

 Asio sandvicensis (Bloxh.), Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 27. 

 Otus cassinii (Brew.), Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 51 (1869). 

 Asio accipitrinus (Pall.), Newton, in Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 4, p. 163 (1873). 

 Ulula brachyotus (Forst.), James, ed. Wils. Am. Orn. i. p. 106, fide Coues, B, of N. W. 

 p. 306 (1874). 



Hibou brachyote, French ; Carabo, Spanish ; Gufo di Padule, Italian ; Omm-issubien, Maltese ; 

 El-hama, Moorish ; Sumpf-Ohreule, Jcurzohrige JEule, German ; Velduil, Dutch ; Hedeugle. 

 Sump-IIornugle, Danish; Siutitok, Greenlandic; Kortoret Ugle, Norwegian; Jorduggla, 

 Kortorad TJf, Swedish ; Lyhysarvinen-P'611'6, Finnish ; Koritchnaya-sova, Russian. 



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