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that both these animals are frequently seen abroad during pleasant 

 weather throughout the winter." 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North America to southern Canada, parts of the West 

 Indies, Central and South America. 



Breeding range. — The burrowing owl breeds north to southern 

 British Columbia (Okanagan); southern Saskatchewan (Many Island 

 Lake, Crane Lake, Rush Lake, Moose jaw, and Indian Head); and 

 southern Manitoba (Oak Lake, Riding Mountain, Portage la Prairie, 

 and Kildonan). East to Manitoba (Kildonan); Minnesota (Swift 

 County, Montevideo, and Sherburn); Iowa (Granville, Paton, Ashton, 

 and Wall Lake) ; eastern Nebraska (Neligh, Horth Loup, and Wilber) ; 

 Kansas (Portis, Garden Plain, Harber, and Medicine Lodge); Okla- 

 homa (Fort Reno, Norman, and Mount Scott) ; western Texas (Bon- 

 ham and Austin); southeastern Florida (Fort Drum, Fort Thompson, 

 Hialeah, and Miami); Bahama Islands (Eleuthera, Cat Island, and 

 Great Inagua); Dominican Republic (Monte Cristi, Sosua, Santiago, 

 Tubanos, Bani, and Beata Island); Lesser Antilles (Nevis, Antigua, 

 and Guadeloupe); probably British Guiana; Brazil (Para, Bahia, 

 Campos, and Itapetinanga) ; Uruguay (Cerro Largo, Rocha, and 

 Maldonado); and Argentina (La Plata, Dolores, Cape San Antonio, 

 Bahia Blanca, Rio Negro, and Cape Espiritu Santo). Sooth to south- 

 ern Argentina (Cape Espiritu Santo); and Chile (Rio Imperial). 

 West to Chile (Rio Imperial, Molina, Coquimbo, and La Serena); 

 Ecuador (Puna Island, Santa Elena, and Concepcion) ; Panama 

 (Chiriqui); Guatemala (San Jose, Duenas, and San Geronimo); 

 Oaxaca (Tehuantepec) ; the "plains of Colima"; Revillagigedo Islands; 

 Baja California (San Jose del Cabo, Mira Flores, Todos Santos, El 

 Rosario, Cedros Island, and Calexico); California (San Clemente 

 Island, San Nicolas Island, Santa Rosa Island, Alcalde, Paraiso 

 Springs, Alameda, Oakland, East Park, Alton, and Tule Lake); 

 Oregon (Mud Creek, Silver Lake, Corvallis, Scio, and The Dalles); 

 Washington (Yakima Valley, Cheney, and Riverside); and British 

 Columbia (Osoyoos Lake and Okanagan). 



The range as above outlined is for the entire species, which has, 

 however, been separated into several geographic races and is, moreover, 

 discontinuous. For example, in the Eastern United States the only 

 region where the species is found regularly is in southern Florida, which 

 is occupied by the Florida burrowing owl (Speotyto c. floridana). 

 This form also is found on the Bahama Islands. The Hispaniolan 

 burrowing owl (S. c. troglodytes) occurs chiefly in Haiti and the 

 Dominican Republic; the Guadeloupe burrowing owl (S. c. guade- 

 lowpensis) and the Antigua burrowing owl {S. c. amaura), both of 

 which are probably now extinct, are confined to a few islands of the 



