170 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Strix varia helveola Bangs. Texas Barred Owl. [3686.] 



Syrnuim. varium helveolum Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, 31, 

 March 31, 1899. (Corpus Christi, Texas.) 



Range. — South-central Texas (Lee and Bexar counties to the Gulf coast). 



Strix occidentalis occidentalis (Xantus). California Spotted Owl. [369.] 



Syrnium occidentale Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., [XI] 1859, 

 sig. 15-19, Aug.-Sept. [Jan. 10, 1860], 193. (Fort Tejon, California.) 



Range. — Mountains of southern California and northern Lower California 

 north along the western flank of the Sierra Nevada at least to Mariposa County. 



Strix occidentalis caurina (Merriam), Korthem Spotted Owl. [369a.] 



Syrnium occidentale caurinum Merriam, Auk, XV, No. 1, Jan., 1898, 

 39, 40. (Mt. Vernon, Skagit Valley, Washington.) 



Range. — Southern British Columbia to Pt. Reyes, Marin County, California. 



Strix occidentalis lucida (Nelson). Mexican Spotted Owl. [3696.] 



Syrnium occidentale lucidum Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, 

 No. 40, Nov. 30, 1903, 152. (Mt. Tancitaro, Michoacan, Mexico.) 



Range. — Colorado, New Mexico, and western Texas through the mountaii s 

 of Arizona to the mountains of central Mexico (Guanajuato and Michoacan). 



Genus SCOTIAPTEX Swainson. 



Scotiaptex Swainson, Classif. Birds, I, [Oct. 1] 1836, 327. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Strix cinerea Gmelin = Strix nebulosa Forster (Ridgway, 1874). 



Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa (Forster). Great Gray Owl. [370.] 



Strix nebulosa J. R. Forster, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, Art. 29. (read 

 June 25), 424. (Severn River [northwestern Ontario].) 



Range. — Breeds in the Hudsonian and upper Canadian zones from tree 

 limit in north-central Alaska and northwestern Mackenzie south to the central 

 Sierra Nevada of California, northern Idaho, northern Montana, and Ontario. 

 Southward in winter irregularly through the southern Canadian provinces, 

 Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota, Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, northern New 

 Jersey, New York, and New England. 



• Scotiaptex nebulosa barbata (Latham). Siberian Gray Owl. [370a] 



Strix barbata Latham, Index Orn., I, 1790, 62. (Siberia . . . mountains 

 in the eastern parts.) 



