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STRIGIN^. SYRNIUM. 
Wliite or Barn Owl, Strix flammea, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vi. p. 57. 
Strix flammea, Bonap. Synops. p. 38. 
White or Barn Owl, Strix flammea, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 139. 
Barn Owl, Strix flammea, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 403; v. v. p. 388. 
GENUS IV. SYRNIUM, Cuv. HOOTING-OWL. 
Bill short, stout, broad at the base ; upper mandible with 
its dorsal outline convex to the end of the cere, then curved, 
the sides sloping and nearly flat, the tip compressed, de- 
curved, acute ; lower mandible small, with the dorsal line 
convex, the tip narrow, the edges decurved toward the end. 
Nostrils large, elliptical. Conch of the ear of medium size, 
and furnished with an anterior semicircular operculum, be- 
set with slender feathers. Legs rather short ; tarsi very 
short, and with the toes feathered. Claws slightly curved, 
long, slender, compressed, acuminate. Plumage very soft 
and downy ; facial disks complete. Wings very large, much 
rounded, the outer quill with the tips of the filaments se- 
parated and recurved, as are those of the terminal portion 
of the next ; the outer six with the inner webs sinuate. Tail 
broad, rounded. 
35. 1. Syrnium cinereum, Linn. Great Cinereous Hooting- 
Owl. — Cinereous Owl. 
Plate CCCLI. Female. 
Uj^per parts greyish-brown, variegated with greyish-white in irregu- 
lar undulated markings ; the feathers on the upper part of the head 
with two transverse white spots on each web; the smaller wing- co- 
verts of a darker brown, and less mottled than the back ; the outer 
scapulars with more white on tbeir outer webs ; primaries blaekish- 
browii toward the end, in the rest of their extent marked with a few 
broad light grey oblique bands, dotted and undulated with darker ; 
tail similarly barred ; ruff-feathers white toward the end, dark brown 
in the centre ; disks on their inner sides grey, with black tips, in the 
rest of their extent greyish- white, with six bars of blackish-brown very 
regularly disposed in a concentric manner ; lower parts greyish-brown, 
variegated with greyish and yellowish- white ; feet barred with the 
same. 
Female, 30i, 48-|. 
From Massachusetts on the east, and Columbia River on the west, 
northward. Migratory, 
