462 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Minerva antiqua (Shitfeldt). 



Aquiln antiqua Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXII, Art. 16, 

 Aug. 4, 1913, 297, pi. LV, fig. 20. 



Eocene (Bridger): Church Buttes, Wyoming. 



Minerva saurodosis Wet.more. 



Minerva saurodosis Wetmore, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LXXIII, 

 1921, 455, figs. 1-2 (April 6, 1922). 



Eocene (Bridger): Near Lodge-Pole Trail crossing on Dry Creek, about 10 

 miles from Fort Bridger, Wyoming. 



Genus OTUS Pennant. 



Otus Pennant, Indian Zoology, 1769, 3. Type, by monotypy, Otiis bak- 

 kamoena Pennant. 



Otus asio (Linnaeus). Screech Owl. 



Slrix asio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Cavern deposits near Lecanto, 

 Florida; cave deposits of Tennessee; Pottei- Creek Cave, Shasta County, 

 and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus BUBO Dumeril. 



Bubo Dumeril, Zool. Analytique, 1806, 34. Type, by tautonymy, Strix 

 b)ibo Linnaeus. 



Bubo leptosteus Marsh.^ 



Bubo leptosteus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, II, Aug., 1871, 126. 

 Eocene (Bridger) : Grizzly Buttes, near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. 



Bubo sinclairi Miller. 



Bubo sinclairi L. H. Miller, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bull. Dept. Geol., VI, No. 

 16, Oct. 28, 1911, 393, figs. 4-5, 



Pleistocene: Samwel and Potter Creek Caves, Shasta Countj^, California. 



Bubo virginianus (Gmelin). Great Horned Owl. 



Strix virginiana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. i, 1788, 287. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon; Samwel 

 Cave, Shasta County, Carpinteria, McKittrick, and Rancho La Brea, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



1 Generic allocation open to question. 



