STRIGIN^. OTUS. 
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Great Grey or Cinereous Owl, Strix cinerea, Nuxt. Man. v. i. p. 128. 
Cinereous Owl, Strix cinerea, Swain. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii, p. 77. 
Great Cinereous Owl, Strix cinerea, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 361. 
36. 2. Syrnium nebulosum, Linn. Barred Hooting-Owl. 
Barred Owl. 
Plate XL VI. Male. 
General colour of upper parts light reddish-brown ; face and greater 
part of the head brownish- white ; the feathers of the latter broadly 
niarked with brown^ of which a narrow band passes from the bill along 
the middle of the head ; feathers of the back and most of the wing- 
coverts largely spotted with white ; primary coverts, quills, and tail, 
barred with light brownish-red ; wings and tail tipped with greyish- 
white; lower parts pale brownish-red, longitudinally streaked with 
brown, excepting the neck and upper part of the breast, which are 
transversely marked, the abdomen, which is yellowish-white, and the 
tarsal feathers, which are light reddish. 
Male, 18, 40. 
From Texas to Nova Scotia. Resident in the south and west. Very 
abundant. 
Barred Owl, Strix nebulosa, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. iv. p. 61. 
Strix nebulosa, Bonap. Syn. p. 38. 
Barred Owl, Strix nebulosa, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 133. 
Bari’ed Owl, Strix nebulosa, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 242 ; v. v, p. 386. 
GENUS V. OTUS, Cuv. EARED-OWL. 
Bill short, stout, broader than high at the base, compres- 
sed toward the end ; upper mandible with its dorsal line 
slightly curved from the base, toward the end decurved, the 
ridge broad at the base, narrowed anteriorly, the sides 
convex toward the tip, which is acute, and descends oblique- 
ly ; lower mandible straight, with the dorsal line very short 
and shghtly convex, the back and sides convex, the edges 
toward the end decurved, and with a slight sinus on each 
side, the tip obliquely truncate. Nostrils large, oblique, 
oblong. Conch of extreme size ; extending from the level 
of the forehead over the eye to the chin in a semilunar form, 
with an anterior semicircular flap in its whole length, the 
aperture large, of a rhomboidal form. Feet of moderate 
length, and stout ; tarsi short, feathered, as are the toes ; 
the first shortest, the second and fourth nearly equal ; claws 
long, curved in the fourth of a circle, extremely acute, the 
first and second rounded beneath. Plumage extremely soft 
