ORDER STRIGIFORMES. 163 



Range.— Foothills and plains adjacent to the eastern Rocky Mountains from 

 eastern Montana and western South Dakota to central Colorado. 



Otus asio macfarlanei (Brewster). MacFarlane's Screech Owl. [373A.] 



Megascops asio macfarlanei Brewster, Auk, VIII, No. 2, April, 1891, 140. 

 (Fort Walla Walla, Washington.) 



Range.— Interior of southern British Columbia south to eastern Washing- 

 ton, Oregon, western Montana, Idaho, and northeastern California. 



Otus asio kennicotti (Elliot). Kennicott's Screech Owl. [373d.] 



Scops Kennicottii Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XIX] 1867 No. 3, 

 June-Sept. [Nov. 1], 99. (S^tka [.\laska].) 



Range. — Northwest coast region from Sitka, Alaska, to Washington. 



Otus asio brewsteri Ridgway. Brewster's Screech Owl. [373j.] 



Otus asio brewsteri Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, Ft. vi, 1914, 

 700. (Salem, Oregon.) 



Range. — Oregon, west of the Cascades, and Chelan County, Washington, 

 south to Humboldt County, California. 



Otus asio bendirei (Brewster). California Screech Owl. [373c.] 



Scops asio bendirei Brewster, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VII, No. 1, Jan., 

 1882, 31. (Nicasio, California.) 



Range. — Coast district of California from near the Oregon line south through 

 the San Francisco Bay region. 



Otus asio quercinus Grinnell. Pasadena Screech Owl. [373A;.] 



Otus asio quercinus Grinnell, Auk, XXXII, No. 1, Jan. 1, 1915, 60. 

 (Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California.) 



Range. — Southern California west of the desert region and along the western 

 flank of the Sierra Nevada north to Mt. Shasta; also on the Pacific side of 

 northern Lower California north of lat. 30° 30'. 



Otus asio cineraceus (Ridgway) . Mexican Screech Owl. [373/.] 



Megascops asio cineraceus Ridgway, Auk, XII, No. 4, Oct., 1895, 390. 

 (Arizona and parts of northern and central Mexico = Fort Huachuca, 

 Arizona.) 



Range. — Upper Austral Zone from central Arizona east to southern New 

 Mexico and central western Texas; also in Lower California between lat. 29° 

 and 30°, and in Sonora. 



