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New Mexico (San Miguel County, 9,500 feet; upper Pecos Kiver) 

 to western Texas (Guadalupe Mountains); north to Colorado 

 (Denver; Fort Lewis). 



Syrnium occidentale (not of Xantus, 1859) Coues, Ibis, 1865, 162 (Ft. Whipple, 

 Arizona). — Ridgway, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 239 (Tucson, Arizona); in Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 29, 38, part (Tucson).— 

 . American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), 

 no. 369.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 115"(Santa Clara Valley, 

 Arizona, breeding).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 343, part 

 (Colorado; New Mexico; Arizona). — Cooke, Birds Col., 1897, 77 (several 

 Colorado records).— Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 308 (San Miguel Co., New 

 Mexico, 9,500 ft.).— Oberholser, Auk, xix, 1902, 300 (Guadalupe Mts., 

 w. Texas). — Swarth, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 8 (Huachuca Mts., 

 Arizona, above 6,500 ft.). 



S[ymiuvi] occidentale HiDGW AY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 259, part. 



[Syrnium] occidentale Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293, part. 



Syrnium occidentalis Smith (H. G., jr.). Auk, iii, 1886, 284 (Denver, Colorado, 

 Jan. or Feb., 1882). 



Strix occidentalis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 8, 191, part; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 398, part.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 478, 

 part. — Henshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 79 (upper Pecos R., New Mexico). — Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371, part. — Cooke, 

 Auk, xxvi, 1909, 412 (Ft. Lewis, Colorado).— Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 281 

 (Santa Catalixia Mts., Arizona, breeding in pine belt). 



S[trix] occidentalis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 510, part. — Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 257, part. 



Strix occidentalis huachucx Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, no. 1, May 26, 

 1910, 3 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona; coll. G. F. Morcom). 



STRIX OCCIDENTALIS LUCIDA (Nelson). 



MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL. 



Similar to S. o. occidentalis, but under parts with much less of buff 

 and correspondingly more of white; legs and feet white or buffy 

 white, more or less spotted with brown. 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 435-457 (446); wing, 320-328 (324); 

 tail, 216-226 (221); culmen, from cere, 22-23.5 (22.7).« 



Mountains of central Mexico, in States of Guanajuato and Michoa- 

 can (Mount Tancitaro). 



Syrnium occidentale (not of Xantus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 260 

 excl. syn. part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 

 1897, 10, excl. syn. (Mexico, Guanajuato). 



[Syrnium] occidentale Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293, part. 



Syrnium occidentale lucidum Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Nov. 30, 1903, 

 152 (Mt. Tancitaro, Michoacan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Genus ASIO Brisson. 



Asio Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 477. (Type, by tautonymy, [^sio] asio Bris8on= 



Strix otus Linnaeus.) 

 Otus (not of Pennant, 1769) Cuvier, Legons Anat. Comp., 1800, tab. ii. (Type, 



by tautonymy, Strix otus Linnaeus.) 



o Two specimens. (No males examined.) 



