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Strix varia albogilva Bangs. TEXAS BARRED OWL. 



Strix varia albogilva BANGS, Auk, 1908, p. 316 (new name to replace Syrnium 

 nebulosum helveolum BANGS, preoccupied). (Corpus Christi, Texas); RIDG- 

 WAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 646. 



Range: South-central Texas. 



Strix varia sartorii (Ridgway). MEXICAN BARRED OWL. 



Syrnium nebulosum var. sartorii RIDGWAY, Bull. Essex Inst., V, 1873, p. 200 



(Mirador, Vera Cruz, E. Mexico). 



Syrnium sartorii SHARPE, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 258 (footnote). 

 Strix varia sartorii RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 646. 



Range: Higher mountains of Central and Southern Mexico. 



*Strix fulvescens (Sclater and Salwn). GUATEMALAN BARRED OWL. 

 Syrnium fulvescens SCLATER and SALVIN, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, p. 58 



(Guatemala); SHARPE, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 258. 

 Strix fulvescens RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 647. 



Range : Highlands of Guatemala and Chiapas. 

 i: "Guatemala." 



Strix rufipes King. PATAGONIAN BARRED OWL. 



Strix rufipes KING, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1828, p. 426 (Port Famine); SCOTT and 



SHARPE, Rep. Princeton Univ. Exp. to Patagonia, IV, 1915, p. 692. 

 Ulula fasciata DBS MURS, Icon. Orn. pi. 37. 

 Syrnium rufipes SHARPE, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 261. 



Range: Chile and Patagonia. 

 Strix occidentalis occidentalis (Xantus). SPOTTED OWL. 



Syrnium occidentalis XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XI, 1859, p. 190 

 (Ft. Tejon, California); SHARPE, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 260 (part). 



Strix occidentalis occidentalis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 649. 



Range: Mountains of southern California (from Los Angeles 

 county) and northern Lower California. 



Strix occidentalis caurina (Merriam). NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL. 



Syrnium occidentalis caurinum MERRIAM, Auk, 1898, p. 39 (Mt. Vernon, Skaget 



Valley, Washington). 

 Strix occidentalis caurina RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



p. 650. 



Range: Northwest coast region of North America, from northern 

 California to British Colombia. 



Strix occidentalis lucida (Nelson). MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL. 



Syrnium occidentalis lucidum NELSON, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, 1903, p. 152 

 (Mt. Yancitaro, Michoacan, central Mexico). 



