162 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — New Brunswick, Maine, northern New York, Ontario, Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, and southern Manitoba south to the uplands of Georgia, Alabama, 

 Tennessee, eastern Oklahoma, and northern Arkansas. Accidental on Prince 

 Edward Island. 



Otus asio asio (Linnaeus). Southern Screech Owl. [373.] 



Strix asio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Based on The Little 

 Owl, Noctua aurita minor Catesby, Carolina, I, 7. (in America = South 

 Carolina.) 



Range. — Lower Austral Zone from Virginia to Georgia and the Gulf States 

 west to Louisiana, north in the Mississippi Valley to western Tennessee, 

 southern Illinois, southeastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. 



Otus asio floridanus (RiDGW ay). Florida Screech Owl. [37.3n.] 



Scops o^-^io var. Floridanus Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., V, No. 12, Dec, 

 1873, 200. (Indian River, Florida.) 



Range. — Peninsular Florida. 



Otus asio mccalli (Cassin). Texas Screech Owl. [3736.] 



Scops McCallii Cassin, lUustr. Birds Calif., Texas, etc., Pt. 6, [Sept. 12] 

 1854, 180. (Texas and Northern Mexico = Lower Rio Grande, Texas.) 



Range. — Extreme southern Texas north to Bexar and Comal counties, 

 west to Kinney County, and south to Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 



Otus asio hasbroucki Ridgway. Hasbrouck's Screech Owl. [373i.] 



Otus asio hasbroucki Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, Pt. vi, 1914, 

 694. (Palo Pinto Co., Texas.) 



Range. — Central Texas, from Travis County to Palo Pinto and Dallas 

 counties, and probably other adjoining counties. 



Otus asio aikeni (Brewster). Aiken's Screech Owl. [373^.] 



Megascops asio aikeni Brewster, Auk, VIII, No. 2, April, 1891, 139. (El 

 Paso County, Colorado.) 



Range. — -Foothills and plains of eastern Colorado and Kansas north to 

 northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota and south to New 

 Mexico. 



Otus asio maxwelliae (Ridgway). Rocky Mountain Screech Owl. [373e.] 



Scops asio, e. maxwelliae Ridgway, Field and Forest, II, No. 12, June, 

 1877, 213. (Mountains of Colorado =Boulder County.) 



