BAPTORES STEIG1DAE S. C UNIOULAEIA VAE. H YPOGAEA. 409 



lacks the numerous rounded reddish-white spots, but each feather has a 

 single elongated white spot at the end of the shaft. 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA (Mol.), var. HYPOG^A, (Bou.). 

 Burrowing Owl. 



Strix hypogcea, BON., Am. Orn., i, 1825, 72. 



Athene hypogcea, BD., Stans. Hep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 314. WOODH., Sit- 

 greave's Exp. Zufii & Col. Riv., 1854, 62. NEWB., P. II. E. Rep., vi, 1857, 

 77. BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds. 5. HENRY, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1859, 105 (New Mexico).-Coop. & SUCKL.,P. E. 

 E. Rep., xii, pt. ii, I860, 157. HAYD., Trans. Am. Pliii. Soc., xii, 1SG2, 154. 

 COOPER, Birds Cal , i, 1870, 448 (hypitg(ca).-STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1870, 462 (hypugcca). ALLEN, Bui. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 180 

 (western edge of plains). SNOW, Birds Kan., 1872, 5. HOLD., Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 208 (hypuyasa}. MERRIAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1872, 690 (Utah"; Idaho). 



Kpeotyto cimicularia var. hypogata, COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 207. BD., BREW., & 

 EIDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 90. YARROW & HENSHAW, Eep. Orn. Specs., 

 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 25. HENSHAW, An. Lye. Nat, Hist. N.Y., 

 xi, 1874, 9. Id., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 48. 

 It!., Eep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 136. COUES, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 322. ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat, Hist,, June, 1874, 34. 



Athene cimicularia, BD., P. E. E. Eep., Beckwith's Route, x, 1857, 13. KENNERLY, P. 

 R. R. Hep., Whipple's Route, 1859, 20. HEERM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. ii, 

 1859, 33. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Fort Tejon, 

 Cal.). BD., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii. pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 5. COOPER, 

 Birds Cal., i, 1870, 437. 



This curious owl appears not to be a very abundant resident either in 

 Arizona or New Mexico, at least in those portions visited by the survey 

 during the past season. They prefer the lower plains, and are not found, 

 I think, at a higher altitude than 6,000 feet. Near Zufli, N. Mex., Camps 

 Grant and Bowie, Ariz., and a few other places, they were seen, but never 

 away from the settlements of the prairie dogs. Their sight in the day 

 appears to be remarkably good, and, as all I saw were very shy, it proved 



