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BARRED OWL. 
HOOT OWL. 
Syrkium nebulosum. 
Char. Above, brown barred, spotted, and striped with dull gray or 
tawny ; below, similar colors of paler tints ; face, gray stripes ; tail 
barred ; iris brownish black ; bill yellow. Length to 24 inches. 
Easily distinguished from all other species by its dark eyes. 
A'isf. Usually in a hollow tree, but often a deserted nest of Crow or 
Hawk is re-lined and used. 
jE^gs. 2-4; white and nearly spherical ; 1.95 X 1.65. 
This species inhabits the northern regions of both the old 
and new continent, but with this difference, as in the Bald 
Eagle, that in the ancient continent it seldom wanders be- 
yond the Arctic circle, being found no farther to the south than 
Sweden and Nonvay; while in America it dwells and breeds 
at least in all the intermediate region from Hudson’s Bay to 
Florida, being considerably more numerous even than other 
species throughout the swamps and dark forests of the South- 
