BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 741 



Eastern United States and southern Canada; north to Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario, west to Wisconsin, southeast- 

 ern Minnesota, Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, 

 eastern Kansas, Indian Territory, and eastern Texas, south to the 

 GuK coast, including Florida. Accidental in Ireland.** 



[Strix] virginiana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 287 (Virginia; based on Le 

 Grand Due de Virginie Brisson, Orn., i, 484; Virginian Homed Owl Edwards, 

 Nat. Hist., Birds, ii, pi. 60; Virginian Eagle Owl Latham, Syn., i, pt. 1, 119).— 

 Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 52. 



Strix virginiana Daudin, Traits d'Orn., ii, 1800, 210, pi. 13.— Shaw, Gen. ZooL, 

 vii, pt. i, 1809, 215, pL 30.— Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 52, pi. 50, fig. 1.— 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 46.— Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 37; 1828, 435 (crit.); Synopsis, 1828, 37; Isis, 1832, 

 1139.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 313, pi. 61; v, 1839, 393.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 124; 2ded., 1840, 129.— Peabody, 

 Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 87.— Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 65. 



-^[fria:] virginiana Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 355; 

 Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [16]. 



Strix {Bubo) virginiana Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 82. 



Bubo virginianus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 6. — Audubon, Syn- 

 opsis, 1839, 29; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 143, pi. 39.— Giraud, Birds Long 

 Is., 1844, 27.— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 24, pi. 10, fig. 22.— Kaup, 

 Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 116 (monogr.); Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 

 1859, 241 (monogr.). — Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 213 (exel. syn. 

 part). — Brewer, N. Am. Oology, i, 1857, 64. — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 48, part.— Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 10; no. 36 (Re\Tie), 

 1873, 4.— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 418, part (in synonymy).— Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 337 (e. Florida; excl. syn. part). — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 317,; 2d ed., 1882, no. 462.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 ii, 1875, 19, part (Delaware). — Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., v, 1879, 417 (Lomita Ranch, Texas; crit.). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 405; Om. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 418. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 188G (and 

 2d ed., 1895), no. 375.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 212 (Caloosahatchie R., Florida, 

 breeding).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 376, pi. 12, fig. 12 

 (egg). — Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, winter resident). 



B[ubo'] virginianus Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 23 (upper Missor.ri River). — 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 503.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 263. 



[Bubo] virginianus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 43, no. 442, part.— Coues, Key N. 

 Am. Birds, 1872, 202, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 282. 



[Bubo] virginiana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 48. 



Bubo virginiana Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ^dii, 1866, 281 (vicinity of New 

 York City). 



Bubo virginianus, var. virginianus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 62, part. 



[Bubo virginianus] var. virginianus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 379 

 (Illinois). 



[Bubo virginianus] a. virginianus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 300, exri. syn. 

 part. 



o Belle Lake, County Waterford, Jan. 27, 1851; see Zoologist, 1881, 308. 



