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Brachyotus palustris Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7. — Gould, Birds 

 Great Brit., i, 1862, pi. 32 and text.— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 28, pi. 

 12, fig. 27. — Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1855, 465 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1861, 404 (Cuba; crit.).— Taczanowski, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 

 350 (e. Siberia).— CouEs, Check List, 1873, no. 321; Birds Northwest, 

 1874, 306, part (synonymy under "general references" and "American ref- 

 erences").— D all, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., v, 1874, 273 (Aleutian Islands).— 

 Rathbun (F. R.), Rev. List Birds Centr. N. Y., 1879, 26 (breeding).— 

 Scott, Bull. Nutt.Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 223 (Long Beach, New Jersey, breed- 

 ing).— Reid, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 25, 1884, 214 (Bermudas). 



[Brachyotus] palustris Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 204. 



[Strix passerina'] var. B Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 66 (Noctua minor Gmelin, 

 N. C. Petrop., xv, p. 447, pi. 12). 



Strix caspia Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 272 (new name for Strix occipitrina 

 Pallas). 



Stryx aegolius Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i, 1826, 309. 



{Brachyotus'] aegolius Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 541. 



Asio segolius Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, 420 (Krasnoyarsk, Siberia; crit.). 



Otus microcephalus Leach, Syst. Cat. Biit. Birds, etc., 1816, 11 (Small-headed 

 Horn-Owl; Gloucestershire). 



Strix brachyura Nilsson, Orn. Suec, i, 1817, 02 (new name for Strix Jlammea 

 Pontoppidan, etc.). 



Otus agrarius Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 124 (Denmark and other nortliern 

 lands, in spring to Germany). 



Brachyotus agrarius Brehm, Naumannia, ]855, 270. 



Brachyotus palustris europaeus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 51, in text 

 (Europe; Asia; n. Africa). 



Brachyotus palustris americanus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 51, in text 

 (North America). 



Ot[us] brachyotus americanus Maximilian, Journ. fur Orn., 1858, 27 (Missouri). 



[Brachyotus] galapagoensis (not Otus galapagoensis Gould) Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 51, part (Falkland Islands). 



[Otus] breviauris Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. Mus. BeroL, 1854, 6 (Brazil; 

 nomen nudum). 



Otus breciauris Sciilegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 4 (in text; crit.). 



Brachyotus leucopsis Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 270 (nomen nudum). 



Brachyotus cassinii Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., v, 1856, 321 (North America); 

 N. Am. Oology, 1857, 68.— Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 54; Orn. U. S. Expl. Exped., 1858, 108 (whole of North Am.; crit.); 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 313 (Mare I., California, Nov.).— Baird, 

 Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 52.— Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 

 pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 34 (Suisun and Napa valleys. Ft. Tejon, etc., California). — 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 390 (Oaxaca).— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 

 196 (Volcan de Agua, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 

 281 (Long Island, New York). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1868, 143 (Couchitas, Argentina).— D all and Bannister, Trans. Chicago 

 Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 273 (Nulato, etc., Alaska).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 

 428.— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1871, 375 (Cuba). 



[Brachyotus] cassinii Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 322 (Cuba). 



Brachyotus cassini Dall, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 26 (Unalaska I.; habits). 



[Brachyotus] cassini Heine and Reichenow, Norn. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 249 

 ("Rio Grande;'' Chile). 



[Otus] cassinii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 51, no. 550. 



Otus brachyotus, /?. cassini Ridgway, Field and Forest, ii, June, 1877, 210 (Colorado). 



