BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 627 



Nyctalatengynalmirichardsoni Coves, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 482. — Merhiam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 237 (Point de Monts, Quebec, winter resi- 

 dent; notes, etc.).— Fox, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 61 (Hollis, New 

 Hampsliii-e, Dec. 15, 1879).— Jencks, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 122 

 (near Providence, Rhode Island, Dec. 18, 1882). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 371. — Seton, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 155 (Red River, Manitoba, resident; Big Plains, Manitoba, rare). — 

 Browne, Auk, ii, 1885, 384 (Framingham, Massachusetts, Jan. 1, 1885). — 

 Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 150 (Nulato, Yukon delta, etc.; 

 habits).— RiDG WAY, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 412.— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiii, 1890, 542 (Winnipeg, etc., Manitoba; probably resident). — Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 347, pi. 12, fig. 6 (egg).— Merrill, 

 (J. C), Auk, xiv, 1897, 353 (Ft. Sherman, Idaho, 2 specs., spring of 1894).— 

 Cooke, Bull. 44, Col. Agric. Exp. Sta., 1898, 160 (Crested Butte, Colorado, 

 Oct. 14, 1896); Bull. 56, 1900, 205 (Breckenridge, Colorado, Dec. 28, 1882).— 

 Rhoads, Auk, xvi, 1899, 311 (Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, Marchl2, 1896).— 

 Brooks, Auk, xx, 1903, 281 (Quesnelle, Caribou Distr., Brit. Columbia).— 

 Deane, Auk, XX, 1903, 305 (Kenilworth, Illinois, Dec. 26, 1902; Rockford, 

 Illinois, Oct. 15, 1884), 433 (Cicero, Illinois, Dec, 1902).— Thayer, Auk, 

 xxiii, 1906, 222 (Hyde Park, Massachusetts, Nov. 26, 1905).— Roberts, in 

 Wilcox's Hist. Becker Co., Minnesota, 1907, 174 (occasional in winter). 

 N[yctala] tengmalmi richardsoni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 512.— 



Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 260. 

 Cryptoglaux tengmalmi ?-ic/ta?-c?soni American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 

 Auk, xxi, July, 1904, 413.— Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, 

 in winter; 9 records).— Eifrig, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 111 (Ottawa, Ontario, Nov. 



16, 1900).— Allen (G. M.), Auk, xxv, 1908, 235 (Milford, Maine, Dec. 22, 

 1906).— Edson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 433 (Glacier, ^^^latcom Co., Washington, 

 1 spec.).— Kermode, Pro\incial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 46 (Okanogan and 

 Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia). 



Glauxfunerea richardsoni American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, 

 xxv, July, 1908, 371.— Dawson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 484 (near Glacier, Wash- 

 ington, Jan. 17, 1907). 



Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni Grinnell (J.), Condor, xi, 1909, 205 (Forty-mile, 

 Yukon Terr.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 

 1910, 171.— Bowles, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 173 (Bellingham, Washington, Jan. 



17, 1905). 



Aegolius (oder Cryptoglaux) tengmalmi richardsoni Hartert, Die Vogel der 

 Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 1913, 998 (geog. range, etc.). 



Nyctale kirtlandi (not N. kirtlandii Hoy) Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 48, part (crit., as to 

 plumage of young; etc.). 



Scotophilis acadica (not Strix acadica Gmelin) Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 81 

 (Bermudas, casual; see Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1850, 7.) 



CRYPTOGLAUX ACADICA (Gmelin). 



SAW-WHET OWL. 



Adults Csexes aZile).— General color of upper parts grayish bister 

 to nearly vandyke brown; " the pileum na rrowly streaked ^vith wlute, 



a The more grayish brown specimens from the Rocky Mountains, the more reddish 

 brown ones from the Pacific coast (British Columbia to Jalisco, Mexico), the average 

 color of ©astern specimens being intermediate, though averaging decidedly near that 

 of Pacific coast specimens. 



