.N0.1352. AMERICAN GREAT HORNED OWLS— OBERHOLSER. 185 



ASIO MAGELLANICUS ICELUS, new subspecies. 



(^Hfrs. f^'uhsj). — Resembling' Asf'o viagellanicus pacijicus^ but very 

 iniich darker, particiilarly on the upper parts. 



Typelocality. — San Luis Obispo, California. 



Geographical distribution. — Coast of California, north of about 3.5° 

 north latitude. 



Jfeasnre/nen ts {1 /jiale). — Wing, 335 nun. ; tail, 215 nun. {2 females). — 

 Winer, 345-360 (average, 352.5) mm.; tail, 203-230 (average, 21(). 5) 

 nun.; exposed culmen, 38-40 (average, 39) mm.; culmen without core, 

 27.5-28.5 (average, 28) mm. 



Description.— Type, adult female. No. 141225, U.S.N.M.: Biological 

 Survey Collection ; San Luis Obispo, California, Noveml)or il), 1891 ; E. 

 W. Nelson. Uj)per surface brownish black, mottled and irregularly 

 barred with butiy ochraceous and grayish white, least so on the fore- 

 head and horns; tail fuscous, with broad ))roken bars of ochraceous, 

 which, on the middle feathers, become almost Avhite; wings fuscous, 

 both the quills and their coverts })arred on exterior we))s with dull, 

 mottled grayish, brownish or whitish, on the iimer wel)s with pale 

 ochraceous; face mixed grayish, ochraceous, and blackish; chin and 

 sides of neck generally similar to the upper surface: throat white; 

 ])roast buffy, with spots and irregular bars of black; rest of lower 

 surface buff}- whitish, heavily barred with black, except in middle of 

 abdomen, where these markings are brown and less conspicuous; feet 

 and tarsi pale buff, or whitish, much mottled with dark l)r()wn; under 

 wing-coverts white or buff'v, with heavy irregular ])ars and other 

 markings of dark brown and blackish. 



The affinities of this new form are with the saturatus group, as to 

 reasonable extent might be expected from its range, rather than with 

 jyacijicus. An example from Redwood City, California, is somewhat 

 darker and more rufescent than those from the localities more 

 southern, indicating an intergradation to the northwai'd with either 

 lagophonas or saturatus. 



Our specimens are from the subjoined localities: 



California. — San Luis 0))is])<); Redwood City; Nicasio. 



ASIO MAGELLANICUS LAGOPHONUS, new subspecies. 



Chars, suhsp. — Resembling ^l.sv'<> ntagellanicus icclu.s. iKit larger; the 

 feet darker; all the ochraceous and rufous tints, particularly on faci^ 

 and feet, much more pronounced. 



Type local if//. — P\)rt Walla Walla, Washington. 



Geographical *^//,s'/'yv7-»///'/V>y/. Washington and northern Oregon 

 (exce])ting the coast region), with Idaho; noith through eastei-n and 

 central British Columbia to Cook Inlet and the interior of .Vlaska. 



