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HAKRY C. OBERHOLSEH. 



Big Trees, Ciilirornia 



Fort Crook, California. ... 

 Idaho Springs, Colorado... 



Estes Park, (Colorado 



» » 



Evergreen, Colorado 



Coloralu Springs, Colorado 

 * Presidio (Jounty, Texas. . . 



Near Apache, .Vrizona 



Grand CaTion, Arizona 



Orizaba Mts., Mexico 



Average 



13 i 

 138 

 129 

 131 

 140 

 130 

 UO 

 141 

 130 

 130 

 137 



134.6 



G3.4 



3 o 



9..i 

 9.0 



8.5 



9,5 

 9.0 

 8.5 

 9.0 

 9.0 

 8.0 

 8.5 



8.9 



z s: 



= ü 



[5 



15.0 

 15.5 



14.5 

 IC.O 

 15.5 

 14.0 

 15.0 

 15.5 

 14.5 

 14.5 



15.0 



17.5 

 18.5 

 18.5 

 11». 

 18.0 

 18.0 

 19.0 

 18.5 

 18.0 

 18.0 

 18.0 



18.3 



18.0 

 18.5 

 18.5 

 18.0 

 18.0 

 18.0 

 17. (» 

 19.0 

 19.0 

 18.0 

 18.0 



18.2 



9.0 

 9 . 

 8 5 

 8.0 

 9.0 

 8.5 

 7.0 

 8 . 5 

 8.5 

 9.0 

 8.0 



8.5 



MEGASGOPS FLAMMEOLUS IDAIIOENSIS Merriam. 



Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Merriam, North. Am. Fauna, 



11° 5, 1891, p. 90, pl. I; A. O.U. Gomm., Aiik, 1892, L\, p. 105; 



Merriam, Auli., 1892, IX, p. 169, pl. 11 ; ßendire, Life Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, 1892, 1, p. 37G; Fisher, Hawks smdOwls of U.S., 1893, p. 173 ; 



Hasbrouck, AmA-., 1893, X, p. 261. 

 Scope idaohensis Gurney, Cat. Birds Frey, 1894, p. 38. 

 Megascops flammeola Palm er, Aiik, 1894, XI, p. 78. 

 Megascops flammeola idahoensis A. 0. U. Chcck-List , 18^^) , \>. 147; 



A. U. U. Gomm., Auk, 1897, X1V^ p. 134; Davie, Nests and 



Eggs of N. Am. Birds, 1898, p. 241. 

 Megascops idahoensis Wm. Palmer, Nidologist, 1896, 111, p. 103. 



Ghars. subsp. — Megascops M.^ßammeolo afßnis., sed 

 conspicue pallidior ; facie vix nigro notata ; corpore infra 

 minus ih'jise vermiculato. 



Geographica! distribution . — Idaho, easlcrn 

 ^YaslliIlJ^■U)ll, and soulhorn California, Unilod Slal(^s. 



Description. — v l'yptJ, male adult, Ketchiim, Idaho, 

 Sept. 22, 1890.) Above brownish j^ray, thc feathers every- 

 whoro moLUcMJ and vermicnlated wilh dark brown, black, 

 while and ochraceous, tho black markings chicfly mesial 

 and mosL conspiciious anlcrioi-ly. A grayish white band 

 on occipnt is separatcd Ironi a similar one on cervi.x by 



