646 BULLETIN- 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



STRIX VARIA ALBOGILVA Bangs. 



TEXAS BARRED OWL. 



With naked toes, like S. v. aUeni, but coloration much paler, the 

 upper parts much more conspicuously and generally barred (the bars 

 nearly pure white), tail-bands broader, whiter, and more sharply 

 defined, stripes on under parts narrower, lighter brown, legs much 

 paler buffy or buffy white and much less distinctly mottled (some- 

 times immaculate), and buff of under parts decidedly paler; bill 

 and feet much larger. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 515; wing, 355; tail, 230; culmen, 

 from cere, 27.5." 



Adult female.— Lengih (skins), 445-540 (504); wing, 330-353 (341); 

 tail, 210-254 (230.5); culmen, from cere, 25-28 (26.6).^ 



South-central Texas (mesquite area), in Nueces, Brazoria, Lee, 

 Refugio, Bexar, Concho(?), and Tom Green(?) counties. 



Symium nebulosum (not Strix nebulosa Forster) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 330 (s. 

 Texas). — (?)Lloyd, Auk, iv, 1887, 189 (Tom Green and Concho counties, w. 

 centr. Texas).— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 662 (Corpus 

 Christi and San Antonio, Texas).- — Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 234 (San Anto- 

 nio, Texas).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PMla., 1892, 106 (Corpus Cliristi, 

 Texas). 



Symium nebulosum alleni (not of Ridgway) Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 (i), 1892, 339, part (s. e. and centr. Texas). 



Symium nebulosum helveolum (not Strix helvola Lichtenstein, 1842) Bangs, Proc. 

 New Engl. Zool. Club, i, March 31, 1899, 31 (Corpus Christi, Texas; coll. E. A. 

 and O. Bangs). — Carroll, Auk, xvii, 1900, 343 (Refugio Co., Texas, resi- 

 dent). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xviii, 1901, 

 299. 



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

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



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



Strix varia albogilva Bangs, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 316, in text (new name for 

 Symium nebulosum helveolum Bangs, preoccupied).^AMERicAN Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371; Check List, 3rd ed., 

 1910, 170. 



STRIX VARIA SARTGRH (Ridgway). 



MEXICAN BARRED OWL. 



Agreeing with 8. v. varia in feathered toes; with S. v. albogilva in 

 large bill and feet, more numerous and whiter bars on upper parts, and 

 whitish legs and feet; but coloration much darker than in any other 

 form, the brown of upper parts more sooty, stripes on posterior under 

 parts broader and much darker (blackish brown to black), and 

 dusky bars on face (auricular and postocular regions) averaging less 

 distinct (sometimes obsolete). 



Adult male.—LQUgth (skins), 466-475 (471); wdng, 342-380 (359.2); 

 tail, 220-238 (228.5); culmen, from cere, 25-28 (26.3).^ 



« One specimen. & Four specimens. 



