BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



689 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 175-210 (198); wing, 139-151.5 

 (144.7); tail, 62.5-73.5 (66.7); culmen, from cere, 13-15 (13.7).*^ 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 185-225 (206); wing, 144-162.5 

 (151.3); tail, 67-76.5 (71.3); culmen, from cere, 13.5-15.5 (14.3).« 



Lower Austral Zone of eastern United States, from Florida and Gulf 

 coast northward to South Carolina (probably to southeastern Virghiia 

 near coast), western Tennessee (Daniels), southern Illinois (Mount 

 Carmcl, Wabash County; Sugar Creek Prairie and Olney, Richland 

 County; Tunnel Hill, Johnson County), southeastern Kansas (Neosho 

 Falls; Cedar Valley), Oklahoma (Ponca Agency), Indian Territory 

 (Red Fork), and Arkansas (Delight; Van Buren), probably also to 

 southeastern ISIissouri, western Kentucky, and extreme southwestern 

 Indiana; probably westward to northeastern Texas, near Gulf coast. 



[Strix asio] Linn^us, Syst, Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 92 (South Carolina; based on 

 Noctua auriia vimor, Little Owl, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 7, pi. 7; 

 Asio scops carolinensis Brisson, Orn., i, 497); ed. 12, i, 1766, 132. — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., 1, pt. 1, 1788, 287.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 54. 



Bubo asio Wailes, Rep. Geol. Miss., 1854, 320 (Mississippi). 



B[i(bo] asio Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 23 (New Harmony, Indiana; crit.). 



Scops asio Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida). — Allen, Bull. Mas. Comp. Zool., 

 ii, 1871, 338 (e. Florida).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 93 (Big 

 Black R., Mississippi).— Beckham, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 164 

 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana). 



Megascops asio Stockard, Auk, xxii, 1905, 154 (Mississippi; nesting habits, etc.). 



(?) Stnxnxvia (not of Gmelin?) Gosse, Alabama, 1859, 275 (Alabama). 



Scops mccallii (not of Cassin, 1854) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 52, part (Indian R. Florida). 



o Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



MALKS. 



Nine adult males from Florida 



One adult male from Louisiana 



Two adult males from southern Illinois 



Four adult males from central Illinois (O.a. nxvius) 



One adult male from north-central Kentucky (O. a. nxvius) 



Ten adult males from Maryland, District of Columbia, and \ irginia (O.a. nxvius) 



One adult male from Long Island, New York (O. a. nxvius) 



One adult male from Rhode Island (0. a. nxvius) 



One adult male from New Hampshire (0. a. nxvius) 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Florida 



Two adult females from Louisiana 



Four adult females from central Illinois (O.a. nzvius) 



One adult female from north-central Kentucky (O.a. nxvius) 



Eleven adult females from Maryland and District of Columbia (O. a. nxvius) 



One adult female from Carlisle, Pennsylvania (O. o. nxvius) 



One adult female from East Saginaw, Michigan (O.a. nxvius) 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



14 



14 



12..i 



14 



15 



15.3 



14.5 



15.5 



15.5 



14.2 



14.5 



l.i 



15 



15.6 



15.5 



14.5 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 44 



