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A very rare straggler from the American eontinentj where 

 it occurs from Canada down to Brazil. It has occurred about 

 five times in the British Islands. 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. Black-billed 

 Cuckoo. 



Cuculus erythropthalma^ Wilson, Am. Orn. iv. 

 p. 16 (1811). 



Coccyzus erythrophthalmus^ Gould, Introd. p. xcv; Dresser, v. 



p. 231. 

 Cuculus erythrophthalmus, Harting, p. 124. 



Erythrophthalmus = red-eyed, from kpvOpos + i^floX/jos. 



Of this Cuckoo a single example has occurred in Ireland. 

 In America it is met with from Canada down to the Amazons. 



Order STRIGES. 



Family STRIGID^. 

 Genus STRIX, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 131 (1766). 



Strix = arpit, a Screech Owl, in late writers; from the root of rp/Ju = I 

 cry sharply or shrilly. Of. strideo = I make a harsh sound, turdus. 



Strix flammea. Barn-Owl. 



Strix flammea, Linnesus, S. N. i. p. 133 (1766). 



Strix flammea, Naum. i. p. 483 ; Macg. iii. p. 473 ; Hewitson, 

 p. 61 ; Gray, p. 28 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 133 ; id. ed. 3, i. 

 p. 140; Gould, i. pi. 28; Harting, p. 8; Dresser, v. 

 p. 237. 



Aluco flammeus, Newton, i. p. 194. 



The White, or Bam Owl, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 126. 



Flammea = of the colour of flame, fiamma. 



A resident throughout Great Britain and Ireland, not 

 usually ranging more than 40° from the Equator except in 

 Western Europe. 



