BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 663 



The whole of continental North and vSouth America, from coast of 

 Arctic Ocean to Patagonia, also Tierra del Fuego, Falkland Islands, 

 and Juan Fernandez and Mas-a-tierra islands, off Chile; breeding, 

 locally, nearly throughout its range, except in more southern portions 

 of eastern United States, where not ascertained to breed soutli of 

 Massachusetts, northern Ohio, northern Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, 

 and Colorado ; winters practically throughout United States, and in 

 Cuba. (Also found throughout Europe and northern Asia and other 

 portions of the Palaearctic Region.) 



Sirix flammea Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, i, 1763, 617, pi. 25 (Sweden; based on 

 Linnaeus, Fauna Suecica, no. 73). 



Asio flamvieus American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, July, 

 1908, 370; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 169.— Hersey and Rockwell, Condor, 

 xi, 1909,118 (Adams Co., Colorado, resident). — Visher, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 

 148 (w. Soutli Dakota, breeding).— Clark (A. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxxviii, 1910, 159 (Fusan, Korea). — Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 37 (Galla- 

 tin Co., Montana, resident). 



Stryx accipitrina Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, i, 1771, 455 (Caspian Sea). — 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 32. 



Asio accipitr'mus Newton, ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1872, 163. — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 234, part (excl. syn. galapagocnsis Gould). — 

 Shelley, Birds Egypt, 1872, 179.— Seebohm and Brown, Ibis, 1876, 112 

 (lower Petchora, Russia). — Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 246 (Yezo 

 and Hakodate, Japan). — Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, 324 (Yenesai R., Siberia, lat. 

 66° 30^ to 67°); 1879, 41 (Japan); 1880, 180 (Krasnoyarsk, Yenesai Valley, 

 Siberia).— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 191; Norn. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1881, no. 396; iv, 1882, 369 (synonymy); xvi, 1893, 664 (Unalaska I., 

 July); Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 407.— Nelson, cruise "Corwiu" in 1881 (1883), 

 75 (Aleutian Islands and northward along coast to Point Barrow); Rep. Nat. 

 Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 149 (Unalaska, lower Yukon, etc. ; habits). — Barrows, 

 Auk, i, 1884, 29 (Concepcion, Uniguay). — Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 29, 1885, 220 (e. Asiatic and Alaskan references). — American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 367. — Ferrari- 

 Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1886, 164 (Chapulco, Puebla, Nov.; Llano 

 de San Baltazar, Puebla, July).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 468 (Cuba); Birds 

 West Ind., 1S89, 191; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 100 (Cuba).— Berlepsch, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1887, 133 (Neotropical Region). — Giglioli and Salvadori, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1887, 581 (Vladivostok and Poissette Bay, e. Siberia; 

 crit.). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1888, 454 (Seoul, Korea). — 

 Rives, Cat. Birds Virginias, 1890, 63 (common resident in tidewater region). — 

 Townsend (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 134 (Clarion I., Revil- 

 lagigedo group, March 4). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 332, 

 pi. 12, fig. 3 (egg).— Ha rtert and Grant, Novit. Zool., xii, 1905, 113 

 (Azores).- Grant, Ibis, 1896, 44 (Salvage Islands, n. w. Africa; crit.); Nov-it. 

 Zool., vii, 1900, 261 (s. Arabia).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1897, 7, part (Guadalajara, Jalisco; Chapulco, Puebla; Orizaba, 

 Vera Cruz; Llano de San Baltazar, Puebla; Volcan de Agua, Guatemala; 

 Chile; Falkland Islands; Cuba).— Wicks, Auk, xiv, 1897, 404 (Los Angeles 

 Co., California, breeding).— Jones, Wilson Bull., no. 22, 1898, 61 (Lorain 

 Co., Ohio; formerly common resident, now rare). — Iherino, Rev. Mus. 

 Paulista, iii, 1899, 329 (Sao Paulo, b. Brazil).— Salvadori and Festa, Boll. 



