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northern Ontario (Parry Sound), southern Keewatin, Manitoba 

 (Winnipeg; Red River Valley; Rat Portage; Portage la Prairie), 

 and Saskatchewan (Chemawaywin) ; west to eastern Jklontana (Gal- 

 latin County; Yellowstone River; Musselshell River), eastern Wyo- 

 ming (Bear Lodge, Crook County), and eastern Colorado (Boulder; 

 Holyoke, breeding); south to or somewhat beyond southern Umit 

 of the Upper Austral Zone, in Virginia, western North Carohna, north- 

 western South Carolina, northern Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 southern Ihinois, Missouri, and northern Arkansas, occasionally (as 

 a straggler or migrant) to Louisiana. 



Strix varius Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, 11 (Pennsylvania). 



Strix varia Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat.,ix, 1817, 601.— American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371. — Henderson, Univ. 

 Colo. Stud. ZooL, vi, 1909, 230 (near Boulder, Colorado).— Cooke, Auk, 

 xxvi, 1909, 412 (Bear Lodge, Crook Co., Wyoming, March, 1905). — Saunders, 

 Auk, xxviii, 1911, 37 (Sour Dough Canon, Gallatin Co., Montana, Aug. 

 5, 1909). 



Strix varia varia American Orncthologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 170. 



Syrnium varium Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, Oct., 1902, 109. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx, 1903, 340. — Currier, Auk, 

 xxi, 1904, 35 (Leach Lake, Minnesota, breeding). — Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 



1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, winter resident). — Allen (F. H.), Auk, xxv, 



1908, 59 (Londonderry, s. Vermont). — Seton, Auk, xxv, 1908, 452 (Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, 3 specs.). — Reagan, Auk, xxv, 1908, 464 (Rosebud Reservation, 

 South Dakota, common). 



Strix nebulosa (not of Forster, 1772) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 45, 

 pi. 17; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 32 (Hudson Bay; United States in 

 -winter). — Wilson, Am. Orn., iv, 1811, 61, pi. 33, fig. 2. — Bonaparte, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y.,ii, pt.i, 1826, 38. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 

 1831, 81.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 242, pi. 46; v, 1839, 386.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 133; 2d ed., 1840, 143.— Gould, 

 Birds, Europe, i, 1832, pi. 46 and text.— Werner, Atlas Ois. d' Europe, i, 

 1848, pi. 49.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, March 27, 1880, 7, 191; 

 Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 397.— Coues, Check List, 2ded., 1882, no. 

 476.— Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 150 (Houlton, Maine; 

 Fairfield, New Brunswick).- Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 237 

 (Point de Monts, Quebec). 



S[trix] nebulosa Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 354 (crit.); 

 Obs. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [15].— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 

 509. 



[iSfru-] nebulosa Boie, Isis, 1828, 315. 



Ulula nebulosa Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1826, 60.— Lesson, 

 Man. d'Om., i, 1824, 113; Traits d'Om., 1831, 108.— Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., 

 ed. 2, i, 1829, 342.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7.— Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 12 (Striges), 1863, 11. 



[ U la] nebulosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 53. 



U[lula] nebulosa Keyserling and Blasius, Wirb. Europ., 1840, pp. xxxi, 142. 



Ullua nebulosa Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, pt. 36 (Revue), 1873, 18. 



Syrnium nebulosum Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 27; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 

 132, pi. 36.— Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 256; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 iv, 1859, 121.— Woodhouse, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. ZufU and Col. R., 



