698 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 235-265 (250); wing, 179-193 

 (186.3); tail, 87.5-100 (93.4); culmen, from cere, 15.5-17.5 (16.3).« 



Western Montana (Hellgate) westward tlirough Idaho (Nez Perces 

 Indian Keservation) to eastern Oregon (Camp Harney; John Day 

 Kiver; Malheur County), northeastern CaHfornia (Fort Crook; Baird, 

 Shasta County?), eastern Washington (Walla Walla; North Yakima; 

 Rock Creek) and southern British Columbia east of Cascade Moun- 

 tains (Okanogan; Penticton). 



Scops asio (not Strix asio LimiEeus) Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 49, part (Hellgate, Montana). 



Scops asio kennicotti (not Scops kenmcottii Elliott) Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 128 (Walla AValla, e. Washington).— Bendire, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 185 (Walla Walla, e. Washington; descr. eggs). — Brewster, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 28-31, part (Walla Walla; Hellgate, Mon- 

 tana; descr. supposed gray phase; crit.). 



M[egascops] asio kennicottii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 262, part (Hell- 

 gate, Montana). 



(?) Megascops asio kennicottii? Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 

 203 (Baird and Ft. Crook, n. e. California). 



Otus asio kennicottii Brooks, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 61 (Okanogan, Brit. Columbia; 

 crit.). 



Megascops asio macfarlanei Brewster, Auk, viii, April (separates pub. Feb. 17), 

 1891, 140 (Walla Walla, e. Washington; coll. W. Brewster). — Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 371.— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 259 (Nez 

 Perces Indian Reservation, Idaho; geog. range). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee, Auk, xi, 1894, 47; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 

 373^.— Snodgrass, Auk, xxi, 1904, 228 (Walla Walla Co., Washington).- 

 Kermode, Provincial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 46 (Brit. Columbia east of Cascade 

 range). 



Mlegascopsl asio macfarlanei Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 592. 



Otus a[sio'] macfarlanei Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. — Peck, Condor, xiii, 

 1911, 66 (Malheur Co., e. Oregon, breeding). 



Otus asio macfarlanei American Ornithologists' Union Committee. Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 372; Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 174. 



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



[Scops'] macfarlanei Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289 (excl. syn. saturatus Brewster). 



OTUS ASIO KENNICOTTII (Elliot). 



KENNICOTT'S SCREECH OWL. 



Large, like 0. a. macfarlanei, but coloration much darker and 

 'browner, the general tone of upper parts inclining, more or less 

 strongly, to tawny-brown, with lighter markings brownish buff or 

 pale cinnamon, the under parts more or less strongly suffused with 

 pale cinnamon, the legs (especially thighs) light tawny; gray phase 

 (which is relatively rare *) similar to 0. a. hendirei and 0. a. mac- 

 farlanei but very much darker (the general color of upper parts 



a Six specimens. 



b The gray phase is represented by only 1 among the 21 adults examined. 



