Identifier: keytonorthameric02coue (find matches)
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: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899
Subjects: Birds -- North America Birds -- Collection and preservation
Publisher: Boston, D. Estes and Company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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or coparacoch, given in Brisson, Orn. 1700, 1, p. 520, as thename applied by the natives of Hudsons Bay to this very bird, the Strix Freti Hudsonis ofBrisson (the Little Hawk Owl of Edwards, ii, pi. 62), and also the Strix canadensisBriss. i, p. 518, pi. 37, fig. 2; which latter is one of the two bases of Strix funerea Linn.S. N. I. ed. 12, 1766, p. 133, No. 11. Our bird has commonly been called Surnia funerea (Linn.1760), as in the 2d-4th eds. of the Key, 1884-90, p. 511 ; but unluckily Linnaeus mixed it upwith the European one, which he had called Strix funerea in his Fn. Suec. 2d ed. 1761, p. 75;and furthermore, his S. funerea of the 10th ed. 1758, p. 93, No. 7, is based solely on the Eu-ropean bird (Fn. Suec. 1st ed. 1746, p. 51). Thus it appears that ulula Linn. 1758 and 1766,belonging exclusively to the European form ; funerea Linn. 1758, exclusively European ; andfunerea Linn. 1766, European and American, aie none of them available for our bird : and STRIGID.E: OTHER OWLS. 641
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Fio. I.SS. — Anicrii-nii M.iwk Dwl.41 642 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — RAPTORES — STRIGES. caparoch Miill. 1776, comes next iu order for the latter. See Auk, Oct. 1884, p. 362. Ataothername for our bird is Strix hudsonia Gm. 1788, obviously based on Edwards, as above; this isthe origin of Surnia ulula var. hitdsonica Coues, Key, orig. ed. 1872, p. 205. Figs. 438, 439.)American Hawk Owl. Canadian or Hudsonian Owl. Day Owl. Caparoch. Billand eyes yellow ; claws brownish-black.Upper parts bistre-brown, darkest andalmost blackish on head, where profuselyspotted with small round w^hite marks,to which succeeds a nuchal interval lessspotted or free from spots, then an areaof larger and lengthened spots; scapu-lars profusely spotted with white inlarge pattern, forming a scapular bar asin Megascops; back and wing-covertsmore or less spotted Avith white also ;primaries and secondaries with whitespots in pairs on opposite edges of thefeathers. Tail broken-barred with whiteor pale gray, usually

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