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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3Baird, Spencer Fullerton

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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3

Name: A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3
Author: Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Baird, Spencer Fullerton

Birds -- North America

var. _nebulosum_.

      Colors blackish-sepia and clear white. Face without any darker
      concentric rings. Wing, 14.80; tail, 9.00. _Hab._ Eastern Mexico
      (Mirador) …

                                                    var. _sartorii_.[21]

      Colors tawny-brown and bright fulvous. Face without darker
      concentric rings (?). Wing, 12.50, 12.75; tail, 7.30, 8.50. _Hab._
      Guatemala …

                                                  var. _fulvescens_.[22]

    3. =S. occidentale.= Lower parts transversely barred. Head and
    neck with roundish spots. Wing, 12.00–13.10; tail, 9.00. _Hab._
    Southern California (Fort Tejon, XANTUS) and Arizona (Tucson, Nov.
    7, BENDIRE).


Syrnium (Scotiaptex) cinereum, AUDUBON.

GREAT GRAY OWL.

  _Strix cinerea_, GMEL. Syst. Nat. p. 291, 1788.—LATH. Ind. Orn. p.
  58, 1790; Syn. I, 134; Supp. I, 45; Gen. Hist. I, 337.—VIEILL. Nouv.
  Dict. Hist. Nat. VII, 23, 1816; Enc. Méth. III, 1289; Ois. Am. Sept.
  I, 48.—RICH. & SWAINS. F. B. A. II, pl. xxxi, 1831.—BONAP. Ann.
  Lyc. N. Y. II, 436; Isis, 1832, p. 1140.—AUD. Birds Am. pl. cccli,
  1831; Orn. Biog. IV, 364.—NUTT. Man. p. 128.—TYZENHAUZ, Rev. Zoöl.
  1851, p. 571. _Syrnium cinereum_, AUD. Synop. p. 26, 1839.—CASS.
  Birds Cal. & Tex. p. 184, 1854; Birds N. Am. 1858, p. 56.—BREW.
  (WILS.) Am. Orn. p. 687.—DE KAY, Zoöl. N. Y. II, 26, pl. xiii, f. 29,
  1844.—STRICKL. Orn. Syn. I, 188, 1855.—NEWB. P. R. R. Rept. VI, IV,
  77, 1857.—COOP. & SUCK. P. R. R. Rept. XII, II, 156, 1860.—KAUP, Tr.
  Zoöl. Soc. IV, 1859, 256.—DALL & BANNISTER, Tr. Chicago Acad. I, 1869,
  173.—GRAY, Hand List, I, 48, 1869.—MAYNARD, Birds Eastern Mass., 1870,
  130.—_Scotiaptex cinerea_, SWAINS. Classif. Birds, II, 217, 1837.
  _Syrnium lapponicum_, var. _cinereum_, COUES, Key, 1872, 204. _Strix
  acclamator_, BART. Trans. 285, 1792.

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