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Rapaces—Nocturne. 
STRIGIDA. 
Genus—Srrix. (Linneus.) 
Section I].—Hornep Owts. 
EGYPTIAN EARED OWL. 
Strix ascalaphus. 
Strix ascalaphus, VIEILLOT. TEMMINCK. 
ie DEGLAND. 
Bubo ascalaphus, Savieny. Gay. 
ee wt AUDUBON. 
Otus ascalaphus, CUVIER. 
Ascalaphia Savignyi, Gray. Temminck ET Lane, © 
pl. col. 57. 
Hibou a huppes courtes, Or THE FreEncu. 
Kurzohriger Uhu, Or 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. 
Tuts Owl was first described by Savigny in his work 
upon the Birds of Egypt, published in 1809. It is a 
