BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 099 



approaching fuscous) and with lighter markings light brownish huffy 

 instead of white, and the under parts much more heavily penciled 

 and spotted. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 220-252 (231); wing, 170.5-190.5 

 (176.5); tail, 82-98.5 (89); culmen, from cere, 14.5-16.5 (15.1).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 225-253 (241); wing, 170.5-187.5 

 (179.2); tail, 85.5-93 (89.2); culmen, from cere, 14.5-16.5 (15.5)." 



Western Washington (Mount Vernon; Lake Cushman; Fort Van- 

 couver; Cape Disappointment; Bcllingham Bay; Seattle; Tacoma) 

 and northward, near coast, through British Columbia (Victoria, 

 Errington, Comox, and Cadboro Bay, Vancouver Island; Sa\ach 

 Island; New Westminster; Chilliwack; Sumas) to southeastern* 

 Alaska (Sitka). 



(?) Strix ado (not of Linnanis) Townsend (J. K.), .Toiirn. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



viii, 1839, 151. 

 Scops asio Cooper and Suckley, Eep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. 2, 1860, 155 



(Ft. Vancouver, Washington). — Lord, Nat. in Vancouver Is., ii, 1866, 292. — 



Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver I.). 

 (?) Strixnsevia (not of Gmelin) Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 



viii, 1839, 151. 

 Scops kennicottii Elliot, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 69 (Sitka, Alaska; coll. 



U. S. Nat. Mus.); Illustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., 1869, p. xxvii, 



pi. 11. 

 Scops kennicotti Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, pt. ii, 1869, 273 



(Sitka).— Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, pt. ii, 1869, 311, pi. 27.— Cooper, 



Orn. Calif., 1870, 423.— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Bremen, iii, 1872, 28 (Sitka). 

 S[cops] kennicotti Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 57. 

 [5'cops] kennicotti Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 492.— Sharpe, Hand-li.st, i, 



1899, 289. 

 [Scops asio'] var. kennicottii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 203. 

 Scops asio . . . var. kennicottii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 318a. 

 Scops asio, var. kennicottii Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 201, in text. 

 Scops asio, var. kennicotti Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 53. 

 [Scops asio] b. kennicottii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303. 

 [Scops asio] x- kennicottii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug., 15, 1878, lOG, 



lll(monogr. ; Sitka; Washington; "Idaho")- 

 Scops asio kennicottii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 191. 

 Scops asio kennicotti Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 402d. — Brewster, 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 28-33, part (crit.; Sitka).— Coues, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 460.— Bowles, Condor, viii, 1906, 143 [144] (n. w. 



Washington; habits; descr. eggs). 

 S[cops] a[sio] kennicotti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 505, 

 [Scops asio.] Subsp. a. Scops kennicotti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 117 



(Vancouver I. ; "west side of Rocky Mts. ' '). 

 Megascops asio kennicotti Stejneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. 

 Megascops asio kennicottii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 



(and 2d ed., 1895), no. 373(?, part.— Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. ColL Alaska, 



1887, 151 (Sitka southward).— Bekdire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 



o Nine specimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



