ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLERS AND THEIR ALLIES
THE OWLS
Lapp Owl
In the northern parts of Europe and Asia the above species is replaced by a lighter-colored but otherwise closely allied form known as the Lapp Owl (S. c. lapponica), which sometimes strays into western Alaska along the shores of Norton Sound. It is said to be a very rare bird, inhabiting the large forests of the high north and rarely straggling down into the northern parts of central Europe.
The third genus mentioned as belonging to this group is Ciccaba, which includes eight species of medium-sized Owls inhabiting mainly Central America and northern South America, but ranging from Mexico to Brazil and Ecuador.
The last of the five or six groups into which the Buboniruz is divided (the Cryptoglaucina) includes some nine or ten genera and upward of sixty species; nearly all are birds of small size, among them being the smallest of the entire suborder.
The typical genus may be regarded as Cryptoglaux, since it serves as the basis of the group name; it embraces three forms. They are small Owls, under twelve inches in length, with a relatively large head devoid of ear-tufts, and extremely short cere and the bony tube of the ear markedly unsym-metrical on the two sides of the head; the tail is relatively short and the wings long and rounded; the toes are completely feathered. In the adults the plumage is brown above, more or less spotted with white, while the lower parts are white, broadly striped with brown.
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