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Crotophaga sulcirostris sulcirostris Swainson. Groove-billed Ani. [384.] 



Crotophaga sidcirostris Swainson, Philos, Mag., n. s., I, No. 6, June, 1827, 

 440. (Tableland, Temascaltepec [Mexico].) 



Range. — -Breeds from the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, south to Peru 

 and British Guiana. Casual in Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, and Florida. 



Crotophaga sulcirostris pallidula Bangs and Penard . San Lucas Ani. [384o.] 



Crotophaga sulcirostris pallidula Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., LXIV, No. 4, Jan., 1921, 365. (San Jose del Cabo, Lower 

 California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California. 



Order STRIGIFORMES. Owls. 

 Family TYTONIDAE. Barn Owls. 



Genus TYTO Billberg. 



Tyto Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., I, Pt. ii, 1828, tab. A. Type, by 

 monotypy, Strix alba Scopoli. 



Tyto alba pratincola (Bonaparte). Bam Owl. [365.] 



Strix pratincola Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7. New name 

 for Strix flammea Wilson [Amer. Orn., VI, 1812, 57] Audubon [Birds 

 Amer. pi. 171]. (No locaUty given = Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — ^Upper and Lower Austral zones from northern California, Colo- 

 rado, Nebraska, Illinois, southern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, Ohio, western 

 New York, and Connecticut south to the Gulf states, southern Mexico, and 

 Nicaragua. Casually to Oregon, British Columbia, Manitoba, Minnesota, 

 Ontario, Vermont, and Massachusetts. [Allied races occur in South America, 

 the West Indies, Europe, Asia, etc.] 



Family STRIGIDAE. Typical Owls. 



Genus OTUS Pennant. 



Otus PENisfANT, Indian Zoology, 1769, 3. Type, by monotypy, Otus 

 bakkamoena Pennant. 



Otus dsio naevius (Gmelin). Eastern Screech Owl. [373??i.] 



Strix naevia Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 289. Based on the Mottled 

 Owl Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 231. (in Noveboraco = New York.) 



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