THE NORTHWEST SAW-WHET OWL. 471 



No. 188. 

 NORTHWEST SAW-WHET OWL. 



A. O. U. No. 372a. Ulaux acadicus scotaeus ((Jsgood). 



Description. — Similar to (7. uciniictis. but darker, more heavilv marked be- 

 low : flanks, legs, and feet more rufescent. 



General Range. — Puget Sound region north (at least) to the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. 



Range in Washington. — Not comnKm resident on Puget Sound. 



Authorities. — ■' Xyctalc acadica. Gmelin, Paird. Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv, IX. 

 1858, ]). 58. Cryptoglanx acadica scotcc, Bowles, Auk, \'ol, XXIII. Apr. 1906, 



P- 143- 



Specimens. — B. 



THIS alleged darker \-ariet_\- has been taken on Puget Sound, but tliere 

 is not sufficient material in hand to determine whether it is the resident 

 breeding form, or whether it is only a winter straggler from further north. 

 The assignment of metes and b(junds to such a quidity is more like a propo- 

 sition in Euclid than a conclusion of inductive science. 



No. 189. 



KENNICOTT'S SCREECH OWL. 



A. O. U. No. 373 d. Otus asio kennicottii 1 Elliot ) . 



Synonyms. — PuGET Souxu ScKEiicii Owl (gray phase). Little Horned 

 Owl. jMottled Owl. 



Description. — Adult: \\"\\.h conspicuous ear-tufts: dichromatic. Rufous 

 phase. — -\bove medium buffy brown to umber, or even dark sooty brown, darkest 

 on crown and wings, more or less varied by dark streakings on feathers centrally ; 

 considerable buffy on scapulars, wing-coverts, and margins of primaries ; wing- 

 (|uills and tail finely and rather indistinctly dusky-barred; below white heavily 

 blotched with umber, and heavily black-streaked on breast and sides, fading 

 posteriorly ; feet and legs completely feathered, more or less mottled with warm 

 brown and buffy; facial disk grayish and rufous bordered by darker, but not 

 highly diiiferentiated from surrounding parts ; iris yellow ; bill yellow or dufl 

 gray, tipped with lighter. Gray phase. — Similar to preceding, but dark gray or 

 pinkish gray instead of umber ; pattern much more complex ; each feather with 

 dusky or rich brown central stripe, and cross-barred with the same color in fine 

 wavy lines; this pattern beautifully carried out on the breast and the sides of 

 the belly ; the ground color of the upperparts ochraceous and of the underparts 



