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(Bucksport and Norway); Massachusetts (Gloucester, Boston, Taun- 

 ton, Woods Hole, and Marthas Vineyard) ; Long Island, N. Y. (Orient, 

 Shelter Island, and Mastic); New Jersey (Red Bank and Sea Isle 

 City); Maryland (Easton and probably Cambridge); Virginia (Camp 

 Lee and Lawrenceville) ; North Carolina (probably Sans Souci, 

 Raleigh, and probably Cape Fear); South Carolina (Columbia, 

 probably Aiken, and Ladies Island); Georgia (Savannah, Riceboro, 

 Blackbeard Island, Mcintosh, and St. Marys); and Florida (San 

 Mateo, Enterprise, Titusville, Fort Drum, Lake Worth, Coconut 

 Grove, and Upper Matecumbe Key). South to Florida (Upper 

 Matecumbe Key, Fort Myers, Manatee, St. Marks, and Whitfield); 

 southern Alabama (Fairhope); southern Mississippi (probably Bay 

 St. Louis); Louisiana (New Orleans, Houma, and Baldwin); southern 

 Texas (probably Cuero, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville) ; Tamaulipas 

 (Matamoros, Rio Martinez, and Ciudad Victoria); Guanajuato 

 (Guanajuato); Durango (Rio Sestin); and Baja California (Cape San 

 Lucas). West to Baja California (Cape San Lucas, San Ignacio, 

 Rosario, El Sauz, Sierra de la Laguna, Villacares, and Rancho Viejo); 

 California (San Diego, San Pasqual, Riverside, Los Angeles, Santa 

 Barbara, Paso Robles, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Nicasio, 

 probably Mount St. Helena, Mount Sanhedrin, and Eureka); Oregon 

 (Waldo, Grants Pass, Corvallis, Salem, and Garibaldi); Washington 

 (Cape Disappointment, Raymond, and Olympia); British Columbia 

 (Victoria and Porcher Island); and Alaska (Sitka). 



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

 been, however, divided into several geographic races, most of which 

 are accorded recognition by all reviewers. A few are still of uncertain 

 status, being held to be valid by some systematic ornithologists and 

 invalid by others. The 1931 edition of the A. O. U. Check-List 

 recognizes 15 subspecies as follows, the ranges in some cases being 

 somewhat amended: The eastern screech owl (Otus asio naevius), 

 ranging from New Brunswick, Ontario, Minnesota, and southern 

 Manitoba south to the uplands of Georgia, Alabama, northern Arkan- 

 sas, and eastern Oklahoma; the southern screech owl (0. a. asio), 

 occupying the Lower Austral Zone from Virginia to Georgia and the 

 Gulf States, west to Louisiana, and north through the Mississippi 

 Valley to southern Illinois, southeastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and 

 casually Colorado; the Florida screech owl (0. a.floridanus), occurring 

 only in the peninsula of Florida; the Texas screech owl (0. a. mccalli), 

 ranging south from Bexar and Cowal Counties, Tex., to Tamaulipas 

 and Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Hasbrouck's screech owl (0. a. hasbroucki), 

 occurring in central Texas in Palo Pinto, Dallas, Kerr, Kendall, and 

 Travis Counties; Aiken's screech owl (0. a. aikeni), foothills and plains 

 of eastern Colorado, Kansas, Arkansas, and Nebraska, north to 



