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Rapaces — Nocturnre. 



STRIGIDjE. 



Genus Strix. (Linnceus.J 



Section II. — Horned Owls. 



EGYPTIAN EARED OWL. 



Strix ascalaphtis. 



Strix ascalaphus, 



Bubo ascalaphus, 



Otus ascalaphus, 

 Ascalaphia savignyi, 



Eibou a huppes courtes, 

 Kurzohriger Uhu, 



VlEILLOT. TEMMINCK. 



Degland. 

 Savigny. Geay. 



Audubon. 



CUVIER. 



Gray. Temminck et Laug. 



pi. col. 57. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Head rather small; beak slender and 

 hidden; facial disc incomplete; two tufts very short, just behind 

 the eyes; tarsi long, feathered to the toes; two glabrous scales at 

 the extremity of the hind toe. 



Length nineteen inches. — Degland. 



This Owl was first described by Savigny in his work 

 upon the Birds of Egypt, published in 1809. It is a 

 species] confined almost entirely to Africa, but having 

 been accidentally found in Sicily and Sardinia, it has 



