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A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3
T. M. Brewer and Robert Ridgway Spencer Fullerton Baird
Night falls and the third volume takes wing with the owls. Spencer Baird works through the American barn owl and its kin, closing the monumental survey of the continent's land birds with the hunters of the dark. Detailed, systematic, definitive. The final volume that completes a classic of American natural history.
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262 chapters
- 1NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. LAND BIRDS. VOL. III.
- 2CONTENTS.
- 3RAPTORES.1—The Birds of Prey.
- 4Family STRIGIDÆ.—The Owls.
- 5Genera and Subgenera.
- 6Genus STRIX, Savigny.
- 7Synopsis of the Races of S. flammea.
- 8Strix flammea, var. pratincola, Bonap. AMERICAN BARN OWL.
- 9Genus OTUS, Cuvier.
- 10Species and Varieties.
- 11Otus vulgaris, var. wilsonianus, Less. LONG-EARED OWL; LESSER-HORNED OWL.
- 12Otus (Brachyotus) brachyotus, Steph. SHORT-EARED OWL; MARSH OWL.
- 13Genus SYRNIUM, Savigny.
- 14Subgenera.
- 15Species and Varieties.
- 16Syrnium (Scotiaptex) cinereum, Audubon. GREAT GRAY OWL.
- 17Syrnium nebulosum, Gray. BARRED OWL; “HOOT OWL.”
- 18Syrnium occidentale, Xantus. WESTERN BARRED OWL; SPOTTED OWL.
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