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Tex., etc., 1854, 179, part; in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv.,1858, 51, part 

 (not specimens mentioned). — Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 199. — Brewer, 

 North Am. Oology, 1857, 65.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 49.— 

 BoARDMAN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 123 (Maine).— Verrill, Proc. 

 Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 142 (Oxford Co., Maine, resident). — Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 26; no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 9.— McIlwraith, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 82 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., viii, 1866, 281 (vicinity of New York City).— Maynard, Naturalists' 

 Guide, 1870, 131 (Massachusetts).— Harting, Man. Brit. Birds, 1872, 93 

 (accidental in England). — Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 318, part; 2d ed., 

 1882, no. 465, part. — Ridgway, in Baii-d, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 49; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 191; Norn. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 402, part.— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 314 (crit.).— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 114 (Toronto, Ontario; Delaware). — Brewster, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., xi, 1875, 144 (Ritchie Co., West Virginia). — Frazar, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, ii, 1877, 80 ((fish-eating habits).— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 232 (Lewis Co., n. New York, breeding). — Langdon, 

 Journ. Cine. Soc. N. H., v, 1882, 52, 53 (dichromatism in vicinity of Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio). — Bicknell, Auk, ii, 1885, 260 (notes). 



[Scops] asio Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 45. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 46, 

 no. 483.— CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 202.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 

 288. 



S[c.ops] asio Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 379, part (Illinois). — Coues, 

 Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 505. 



E[phiaUes] asio Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 38. 



Scops asio Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., 1844, 44 (Delaware). — Woodhouse, in 

 Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 1853, 62, part (Indian Terr.).— 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1851, 236 (plumages). 



[Scops asio] var. asio Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 200, in text; in 

 Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 48, part. 



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



[Scops asio] a. asio Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 106, 107, part 

 (monogr.). 



Megascops asio Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lend., iv, 1859, 228 (monogr.). — Stej- 

 neger. Auk, ii, 1885, 184.— American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 373.— Ralph and Bagg, Trans. Oneida 

 Hist. Soc, iii, 1886, 121 (Oneida Co., New York, breeding). — Brewster, 

 Auk, V, 1888, 389 (Winchendon, Massachusetts). — Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 415, part.— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 354, pi. 12, 

 fig. 8 (egg). — Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 252 (geog. range; crit.). — 

 Chadbourne, Auk, xiii, 1896, 321-325 (individual dichromatism); xiv, 1897, 

 33-39, pi. 1 (individual dichi'omatism). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 38 

 (Elmsdale and Port Sydney, n. w. Ontario). — Wilson (B. H.), Wilson Bull, 

 no. 54, 1906, 4 (Scott Co., Iowa, common resident). — Coolidge, Auk, xxiii, 



1906, 48 (young in captivity; account of mating). — Jones, Wilson Bull., no. 

 57, 1906, 115 (Cleveland, Ohio, common resident). — Eifrig, Auk, xxiii, 

 1«906, 316 (Ottawa, Ontario, breeding).— Hubel, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 50 (near 

 Cobalt Lake, Nipissing district, Ontario). — Larsen, Wilson Bull., no. 60, 



1907, 114 (Lyman Co., South Dakota, resident). — Roberts, in Wilcox's Hist. 

 Becker Co., Minnesota, 1907, 174 (resident).— Peet, Tenth An. Rep. Mich. 

 Ac. Sci., 1908, 192 (Ypsilanti Bayou, Michigan, common resident). — Reagan, 

 Auk, XXV, 1908, 464 (Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, common).— 

 IsELY, Auk, xxix, 1912, 28 (Sedgewick Co., Kansas). 



M[egascops] asio Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 261. 



