BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 701 



OTUS ASIO BENDIREI (Brewster). 

 CALIFORNIA SCREECH OWL. 



Similar to the gray phase of 0. a. nsevius, but under parts more tinged 

 with grajash and the darker pencilings finer and more generally dis- 

 tributed, nearly, if not quite, obliterating the immaculate wliite jugu- 

 lar and abdominal areas, always present in 0. a. nseviiLs; ear-tufts aver- 

 aging decidedly shorter. No rufous phase. 



Adultmdle. — Length (sldns), 212-245 (219); wing, 155-171 (161.9); 

 tail, 76-86 (81.1); culmen, from cere, 13.5-14.5 (14.1).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skms), 228-235 (231); wing, 161.5-177 

 (166.2); tail, 80-90.5 (84.1); culmen, from cere, 13.5-16 (14.7).'' 



California, except southeastern desert region (and, probably, north- 

 ern coast district) and south-central Oregon (Fort Klamath). 



Ephialtes choliha (not Strix choliha Vieillot) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., vi, 1853, 4 (Sacramento, California). 



Sco-ps asio (not Strix asio Linnseus) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 51, part (Petaluma, San Francisco, and Sacramento Valley, Cali- 

 fornia).— Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 35 (Cali- 

 fornia).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 420.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 xvii, 1875, 363 (Nevada City, California).— Ridgway, Orn. Fortieth Parallel, 

 1877, 571 (Sacramento, California). — Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. M\w., i, 1879, 

 433 (Stockton, California). 



[■Scops asio] a. asio Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303, part. 



[Scops asio] a. asio Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 106, 107, part. 



Scops asio, var. mccalUi (not of Cassin) Cooper, Am. Nat., ill, 1869, 479 (Colorado 

 Valley, Ariz.). 



Scops asio, var. maccalli Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hi^t. N. Am. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 52, part (Stockton, California). — Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 WTieeler's Surv., 1876, 262 (Ft. Tejon, California). 



Scops asio bendirei Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 31 (Nicasio, 

 Marin Co., California; coll. W. Brewster). — Reichenow and Schalow, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 415 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



S[cops] a[sio] bendirii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 506. 



Megascops asio bendirei Stejneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 373c. — Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 361.— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 255 

 (geog. range). — Grinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 23 (Los Ange- 

 les Co., California). — Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 87 (San Diego Co., California, 

 breeding). 



M[egascops] asio bendirei Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Bhds, 1887, 262. 



Otiis a[sio] bendirei Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. — Carriger and Ray, Condor, 

 xiii, 1911, 73 (Santa Clara Co., California). 



Otus asio bendirei Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 581 (Mt. Sanhedrin, 

 California). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 372; Check List, 3id cd., 1910, 173.— Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, 203 

 (Arroyo de loa Gatos, near Tularo Lake, California). 



Scops bendirei Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



[Scops] bendirei Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



"' Eight specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



