STKIGID.'E, OWXjS. — (iEN. 142. 203 



Var. KENNicOTTii. Large dark nortb-western form; general color sepia-browu, 

 mottled and blotched with black ; 11 ; wing 7]- ; tail 4. Alaska to AVashington and 

 Idaho ; three specimens known. Elliot, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1867, C9 ; Id., pi. 27 ; 

 Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad. 18G9, .311 ; Coop., 4i>3. 



Var. MAGCALLii. Small, pale, soutlicrn form ; size at the minimum above given. 

 Southwestern United States. Cass., 111. 180, and in Bd., o2. 



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IK, 1. S IL ll Owl 



** Toes perfecthj nuled. 

 ■■ Flammulated Owl. Above, gniyisli-browii, obscurely streaked with black, 

 and finely speckled with white ; below, graj-ish-white with some rufous 

 mottlini;:, each feather with a shaft streak, and several cross-lines, of black; 

 face and ruff varied with rufous ; edges of the scapulars the same, forming a 

 noticeable oblique bar; wing coverts tipped, and outer webs of the quills 

 squarely spotted, with white, or rufous-white, and tail feathers imperfectly 

 barred with the same. 6J-7 ; wing 5J-5J ; tail 2J. A sm:dl owl with the 

 form and much the general aspect of an ungrown *S'. cr.s/o, but the feathering 

 of the feet stops abruptly at the toes. Mexico; North to Fort Crook, 

 California, where found breeding {Feilner). Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, 

 96; Scl. and Salv., ibid. 1868, 57, and Exotic Ornithology, vii, 68, 99, 

 pi. 50; Coop., 422 flamiieola. 



142. Genus OTUS Cuvier. 

 Long-eared Oivl. General plumage above, a variegation of dark brown, 

 fulvous and whitish, in a small pattern; breast more fulvous, belly whiter, 

 former sharply striped, and latter striped and elaljorately barred, with black- 

 ish ; quills and tail mottled and closely barred Avith fulvous and dark brown ; 

 face pale, with black touches and eye patches ; bill and claws blackish. 



