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Title: Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ALUCONIDJE: BARN OWLS. 501 160. be called Aluconidce, instead of Strigidcc ; wliieli latter naiiie is to bo applied to the succeediiii^ family. ALUCO. (Ital. aZoc/io, some kind of owl. Figs. 47, 351.) Barn Owls. To above characters add : Wings very long, pointed, folding beyond the tail, the 1st or 2d primary longest, and none emarginate. Tail short, nearly even or emarginate, abont \ as long as the wing. Tarsus nearly twice as long as middle tue without claw, closely feathered, the plumage becoming scant and
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Fig. 351 I i-i Ilia liixlim.) From yonder ivy-mantled tower,The moping owl does to the moon complainOf such, as wandring near her secret bower,Molest her ancient solitary reign. — Gkay. bristly below, like that on the nearly naked toes, and reversed in direction on the posterioraspect; claws extremely long and acute (see fig. 47)- Bill lengthened, compressed, the cerenearly as long as the rest of the culmen; nostrils oval; no plumicorns ; eyes comparativelysmall, black ; bill light-colored; plumage flagrant, not dichromatic ; .size medium. One NorthAm. species. 502 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —RAPTOBES— STBIGES. 435. A. flammeus pratincola. (Lat. flammeus, fl;^;^colored; pratincola, meadow-inhabiting.)liAKN Owl. Above, including upper surfaces cT wings and tail, tawny, fulvous, or orange-brown, delicately clouded or marbled with ashy and white, and dotted with blackish, sometimesalso with white; such marking resolved, or tending to resolve, into four or five bars of darkmottling on the

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