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Feilncr, U. S. Army, on August 23, ISIJO, noar Fort Crook, 

 in norlhern California. This was a bird sLill in nestling 

 pliimago, and had undonbtodly boon rearod in that immc- 

 dialo vicinily. So far ;is tbo Hiiilod States was concerncd, 

 Ulis cxamplo remained iiniqnc for Ibirtoen yoars, nntil ou 

 Soptcmbor H, 1873, Dr. C. G. Ncwberry was so foi-Umalo 

 as to obtain a specimcn some thirty miles in a sonlbcrly 

 direction from Camp Apache, Arizona. Soon after this, — 

 in 1 877 — Mr. Ridgway reported Megascops ßammeohis for 

 the first time in Colorado ; and since then the records have 

 been gradnally accnmulatiiig, Coming largely, however, 

 iVom the last menlioned state, where the spccies appears 

 to be more common than anywherc eise in its ränge. 



Sumichrast reported it rare in the Orizaba Mountains, 

 Mexico ; and rarity is also the testimony of Messrs. Salvin 

 and Godman, whose only specimens were secured through 

 Indian hunters. Biit as Mr. Ilenshaw suggests, its scarcity 

 may be less real than apparent, for small size and striclly 

 nocturnal habits enabie it easily to escape Observation. 

 Mr. Beiding thinks it not uncommon in the heavy forests of 

 the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, ashe has heard it 

 there repeatedly. So far as kown it ranges from about 4000 

 to 10000 feet in altitude; and its habitat seems to be in 

 Mexico as well as in the United States, prefcrably the 

 areas of cvergreen forest growth. 



The following list gives the localities at which true 

 Megascops flammeolus has been ascertained to occur. The 

 record for Nevada, givenby Messrs. Salvin and Godman (1), 

 is erroneous, being based upon a misquotation of the 

 town of Nevada in California; andno specimen seems ever 

 to have been taken in the state of Nevada. 



California. — Fort Crook ; Big Trees. 



Arizona. — Thirty miles south of Camp Apache; 

 Mouth of Little Colorado River (Grand Canon of Colorado) ; 

 lluachuca Mountains. 



NevT" Mexico. — Santa Fe. 



(1) Biol. Cent. — Amer., Aves, 1897, III, p. 24. 



