BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 607 



Detroit Kiver; Port Nouillee; Wayne County, October; Sault Ste. 

 Marie), Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon (lOamath Basin), and southern 

 British Columbia (near mouth of Fraser River, 1 specimen) ; south- 

 ward over whole of Mexico, in States of Tamaidipas (Santa Fe de 

 Presas), Nuevo Le6n, Coahuila (head of Las Vacas Creek), Chihua- 

 hua, Sonora, Sinaloa (Presidio de Mazatlan; Escuinapa), Colima 

 (Rio de la Armeria; Colima), Jalisco (Guadalajara; Ocotlan; Las 

 Canoas; San Mateo), Aguas Calientes, Guanajuato, Mexico (Valley 

 of Mexico; Mexicalcingo), Puebla (Cliietla; Llano de Chapulco; 

 Forres de la Catedral), Vera Cruz (Orizaba), Oaxaca (Cacoprieto; 

 Tehuantepec City), Chiapas (Tonala; San Bartolome), and Yucatan 

 (Chichen Itza; Izamal; Tizimin; Calotmul), and Territory of Topic 

 (Tres Marias Islands), and whole of Lower California, including Los 

 Coronados and Todos Santos Islands; southward in eastern Central 

 America to eastern Nicaragua (Rio Escondido), at least in winter. 



Strix flammea (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 57, pi. 50, fig. 2. — 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 28, part (North America). — 

 Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 38; ii, 1828, 436 (crit.).— Rich- 

 ardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 99, in text. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., Land Birds, i, 1832, 139.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 403, pL 

 171; V, 1839, 388.— Allen, BulL Mus. Comp. ZooL, ii, 1871, 341 (Florida).— 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 456 (Yucatan; habits). 



S[trix] flammea Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 354; Obs. 

 Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [15]. 



[Strijc] flammea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116, part. 



Ulula flammea J \ni)ii<iE, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 264. 



Strix pratincola Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7 (based on Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., ii, 403, pi. 171).— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 31, pi. 13, fig. 

 28. — Heermann, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sei. Phila., ii, 1853, 261 (California); Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 34 (California; habits).— Cassin, 

 Illustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 116; in Baird, Rep. Pae. R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 47; Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 313 (San Francisco, Califor- 

 nia). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, chap, ii, 1857, 76 (San Fran- 

 cisco, San Diego, etc., California; Klamath Basin, Oregon).— Brewer, N. 

 Am. Oology, 1, 1857, 62, pi. 4, fig. 38.— Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 4 (Rio Frio and lower Rio Grande, Texas; Mon- 

 terey, Nuevo Leon; nesting habits); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 47. — 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 390 (Oaxaca).— Wheaton, Ohio 

 Agric. Rep., 1860, no. 20 (Ohio).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 

 49 (Ft. WTiipple, Arizona, resident).- Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 

 1866, 281 (vicinity New York City).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 415.— Gray- 

 son, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 270 (Tres Marias Is.).— Allen, Am. 

 Nat., iii, 1870, 570 (Springfield, Massachusetts; Sachem's Head and Strat- 

 ford, Connecticut), 646 (Lynn, Massachusetts).— Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 

 2 (rare).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 163 (Llano de 

 Chapulco and Forres de la Catedral, Puebla).— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Cheek List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 365.— Dutcher, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 439 (Flushing, Long Island, breeding).— Chapman, Auk, iii, 1886, 485 

 (Englewood, New Jersey, 1 spec, Aug. 26).— Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 

 400.— Brewster, Auk, vii, 1890, 205 (Westport, Massachusetts, Dec. 30, 



