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Bubo virginianus neochorus subsp. iiov. 
Chars, subsp. —Similar to Bubo oirginianus heterocnernis, but smaller, 
excepting the bill; up})er parts lighter, tbe dark ground color less deej) 
and more broken, the light markings more numerous; lower parts with 
rather less of dark color; feet and legs less heavily mottled with dark 
brown. 
Description.—Type, adult female, collection of Dr. L. C. Sanford; Fox 
Island River, Newfoundland, July S, 11)12; Dr. L. C. Sanford. Upper 
surface fuscous, much mottled, vermiculated and irregularlj' barred with 
brownish white, and on the subterminal {)ortious of tbe feathers, mostly 
concealed, with ochraceous buft’ and light ochraceous huh'; “horns” 
tuscous black, laterally marked with irregular areas of bully white and 
ochraceous; superior wing-coverts and tertials like the upper parts; wing- 
cpiills sepia, the outer webs with broad, broken and mottled bars of 
brownish white or ])ulfy, the inner webs with the same kind of bars on 
their terminal portions, only more faintly indicated, and basahy becom¬ 
ing ochraceous buff on the inner i)ortions of tbe webs; middle rectrices 
tuscous, the rest sepia, all with mottliugs and broken bai’S of browmish 
white, pale brown, buff or pale ochraceous buff; extreme forehead, nasal 
plumes, and sui)raloral streak white, much mixed with fuscous and fus¬ 
cous black; facial disk mixed dull grayish white, ochraceous, buff, 
blackish, and fuscous, and bordered behind by a black band which joins 
the black horns; sides of neck grayish white, much mottled, streaked, 
spotted, and barred with fiuscous, and on the subterminal portions of tlu' 
feathers with ochraceous huff; chin and throat white, .separated from 
each other by a band of fascous the feathers of which have such broad 
ochraceous, ochraceous buff, and buff margins that the general appear¬ 
ance is light ; breast ochraceous buff, with blotches, bars and mottliugs 
of fuscous and white ; remainder of lower surface white or huti'y, laterally 
with much of ochraceous bufi, and everywhere conspicuously barred with 
fuscous; tibiae ochraceous, tarsi ochraceous buff, both somewhat mottled 
and irregularly harred with fuscous, the toes huff, almost immaculate; lining 
of wing ochraceous buff, much mottled and irregularly harred with fus¬ 
cous and whitish. 
Measurements.—Male:* Wing, :D5 mm.; tail, 219; exiwsed cuhnen, 
:!7.5; cuhnen from cere, 28; tarsus, 1)2. 
Female:? Wing. 870-871 (average, 370.:!) mm.; tail, 218-227 (148.8); 
exposed cuhnen, ;)9-4o (41.5) ; cuhnen from cere, 28-88 (80.8); tarsus, 
02-70 (07.3). 
Geographical Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. 
]lemarks.—T\\\^ new form is api)arently a very distinct race, dillering 
from Bubo virginianus heterocnernis much .more decidedly than does that 
form from Bubo virginianus saturatus. Although its small general size, 
lighter ground color of the upper parts, and reduced dark markings below^ 
*Ono specimen, immature though apparentl.v full grown, 
t Three specimens, two from Newfoumllaml.and one from Nova Scotia, 
former is immature but seemingly of full .size. 
One of tin 
