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Genus SPEOTYTO Gloger. 



Speotyto Gloger, Hand- und Hilfsbuch Naturg., 1S42 [pp. 1-450, 1841], 

 226, Type, by monotypy, Strix cunicularia Molina. 



Speotyto cunicularia hypugaea (Bonaparte). Western Burrowing Owl. 



[378.] 



Strix hypugaea Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., I, 1825, 72 (note). (Western 

 United States= Plains of the River Platte.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of the United States east to Minnesota, western Iowa, 

 and Louisiana, and from British Columbia and Manitoba, south to Panama; 

 migratory north of Oregon and northern Kansas. Accidental in Indiana, New 

 York, and Massachusetts. 



Speotyto cunicularia fioridana Ridgway. Florida Burrowing Owl. [378a.] 



Speotyto cunicularia var. fioridana Ridgw^ay, Amer. Sportsman, IV, 

 No. 14 (n. s. No. 40), July 4, 1874, 216. (16 miles east of Sarasota Bay, 

 Manatee Co., Florida.) 



Range. — Prairie region of central and southern Florida. 



[Numerous allied races of S. cunicularia occur in South America, Haiti, 

 Antigua, and the Bahamas.] 



Genus STRIX Linnaeus. 



Strix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Strix stridula =S. aluco Linnaeus. {Strix in synonymy; cf. Op. 16, 

 Internat. Comm. Zool. Nomencl.) 



Strix varia varia Barton. Northern Barred Owl. [368.] 



Strix varius Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, 11. (Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, southern 

 Quebec, and Newfoundland south to Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentuckj^, northern 

 Georgia, and northwestern South Carolina and west to eastern Wyoming, 

 central Montana, and eastern Colorado. 



Strix varia dlleni Ridgway. Florida Barred Owl. [368o.] 



Strix nebulosaalleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, sig. 1 [March 27], 

 1880, 8. (Clearwater, Florida.) 



Range. — South Atlantic and Gulf states from central North Carolina to 

 eastern Texas, north to northern Alabama and Arkansas. 



