BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 645 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 445-500 (478); wing, 330-360 

 (347.1); tail, 215-245 (232.3); culmen, from cere, 25-28 (24.1 ).« 



Humid division of Lower Austral Zone of eastern United States; 

 north to South Carohna on the Atlantic coast, to Arkansas (Wilmot; 

 DeHght; Van Buren; Stuttgart) and northeastern Texas (Cook 

 County) in the interior;^ west to eastern Texas (Shelby, IlanHn, 

 Montgomery, Harris, Galveston, and Fort Bend counties), 



Ulula nebulosa (not Strix nehulosa Forster) Wailes, Rep. Geol. Miss., 1854, 320 

 (Mississippi). 



(J)\TJlula] nebulosa Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Ilein. Orn., 1890, 252 

 (Georgia; South Carolina). 



Symium nebulosum Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida). — Mayxard, Birds E. X. 

 Am., 1881, 256, part (Florida specimens). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 ii, 1871, 340 (e. Florida).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 323, part.— Nehr- 

 LiNG, Bull. Nutt. Ora. Club, vii, 1882, 172 (Montgomery, Gkilveston, and 

 Fort Bend counties, Texas). 



[Symiuni] nebulosum Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 204, part. 



Strix nebulosa alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, sig. 1, March 27, 1880, 8 

 (Clearwater, s. w. Florida; coll. XJ. S. Nat. Mus.), 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 397a. — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 79 (reprint 

 of original descr.). — Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 18 (Tanasofenskee 

 Lake, Florida).— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 477. 



S[tnx'] n[ebulosd\ alleni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 510. 



Symium nebulosum alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 355; Auk, viii, 1891, 240 (near Charleston, South Carolina).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 368a.— 

 Ragsdale, Aiik, iii, 1886, 281 (Cook Co., n. e. Texas).— Chapman, Auk, v, 

 1888, 271 (Gainesville, Florida).— Allen, Auk, v, 1888, 324 (Mande\'ille, 

 Louisiana).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 339, part.— Scott, 

 Auk, vi, 1899, 248 (Tarpon Springs, Sanibel I., and Marco, w. Florida).— 

 Coombs, Auk, ix, 1892, 205 (Bayou Teche, Louisiana).— Wayne, Auk, xii, 

 1895, 364 (Aucilla R., n. w. Florida).— Beyer, Proo. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-99 

 (1900), 100 (Louisiana).— Beyer, Allison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 

 443 (Louisiana). 

 • S[ymium] nebulosum alleni Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 259. 



Symium varium alleni Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, Oct., 1902, 109.— 

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

 Williams (R. W.), Auk, xxi, 1904, 455 (Leon Co., Florida).— Kopman, Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 141 (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana).— Howell (A. H.), Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., xxi, 1908, 120 (Lecompte and Eldorado, n. Louisiana); Bull. 38, 

 U. S. Biol. Sr.rv., 1911, 42 (Wilmot, Delight, Van Buren, Stuttgart, etc., 



Arkansas). 

 5<na;2)anaaZZem American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 170. 



Stryx varia alleni Fisher (W. C), Wilson Bull., xxii, 1910, 45 (Lake Wimlico, 

 n. w. Florida). 



Symium alleni Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 40. 



[Symium] alleni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 



Symium varium (not Strix varius Barton) Allison. Auk, xxi, 1904, 477 (\\est 

 Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana).— Stockard, Auk, xxi, 1905, 153 (Missi-s- 

 sippi; nesting habits, etc.). 



°' Seven specimens. 



6 Owing to lack of material from intermediate territory, it is not possible at present 

 to state with greater precision the northern limits to the range of this form. 



