BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 809 



Desert areas of southeastern California (San Bernardino County; 

 Kern County?; Whetstone Mountains; Colorado Kiver), Arizona 

 (Fort Mojave; Fort Lowell; Tucson; Killito Creek, near Tucs6n; 

 Fuller's Ranch; Big Sandy Creek; Benson; Dragoon Mountains; 

 Santa Cruz River, Pima County; Pinal County), southwestern New 

 Mexico (Apache, Grant County), and Sonora (Cerro Blanco). 



Athene whitneyi Cooper, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 1861, 118 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona; 

 coll. Calif. Geol. Survey).— Coues, Ibis, 1866, 260, in text. 



[Athene] whitneyi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 43, no. 435. 



Micrathene whitneiji Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 51 (Ft. Mojave, 

 Arizona); Check List, 1873, no. 331; Birds Northwest, 1874, 320.— Elliot, 

 Illustr. New and Unfig. Am. Birds, i, 1868, pi. 29 and text.— Cooper, Orn. 

 Calif., 1870, 442 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona).— Ridgv/ay, in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 87, part; Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 239 

 (Rillito Creek, near Tucson, Arizona); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 192; 

 Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 411.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 

 224.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 27 (Camp Lowell, Ari- 

 zona; descr. young, nest, and eggs, etc.). — ^American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 381, part.— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 424 (Pima 

 and Pinal counties, Arizona). 



[Micrathene] whitneyi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 207, part.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



M[icrathene] whitneyi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 576, part. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 267, part. 



Micropallas whitneyi American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, [March] 1889, 21, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2d 

 ed., 1895, no. 381, part; 3d ed., 1910, 178, part.— Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892, 

 362 (Apache, s. w. New Mexico). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 

 1892, 411, pi. 12, fig. 13 (egg).— Ridgway, Condor, iv, 1902, 18 (Kern Co., 

 California, May 10, 1882). — Loomis, Auk, xix, 1902, 80 (San Bernardino Co., 

 California, April 20, 1898).— Brown (H.), Auk, xx, 1903, 43, 44 (Colorado 

 Valley, Arizona).— Smith (A. P.), Condor, ix, 1907, 197 (\ATietstone Mts., 

 California, up to 5,000 ft.).— Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 281 (Pima Co., 

 Arizona). 



M[icropallas] whitneyi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 267, part. 



[Micropallas] whitneyi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 299, part. 



MICROPALLAS WHITNEYI SANFORDI Ridgway. « 



SANFORD'S ELF OWL. 



Similar to M. w. whitneyi, but much grayer above and (in the gray 

 phase, at least) with much less of cinnamon-buff on face and little if 

 any rusty brown or cinnamon on under parts ; gray phase with ground 

 color of upper parts between mouse gray and hair brown, without 

 distinct, if any, darker vermiculations ; brown phase similar in color- 

 ation to the grayer phase of M. w. whitneyi but slightly darker; wmg 

 averaging decidedly shorter, tail averaging longer. 



«New subspecies. (Type, no. 234166, adult male, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Mira- 

 flores. Lower California, June 24, 1912; W. W. Brown, jr. Presented by Dr. L. C. 

 Sanford.) 



