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more hlackisli l'acial disc, particiilarly lliat pari heliind 

 car-covcrls ; and in tl»e slightly more rufcscent or brown- 

 ish tingo cliaraclerizing Ihe enlire plumage of the body. 

 The lighl markings ot the lail-feathers are, however, less 

 deeply butTy, being on Ihe exterior rectrices nearly 

 white. Two other examples from tho San Beniardino 

 Monnlains are essenlially similar; bnt one of Iheseisdark- 

 er, particularly below, the vermiculations niuch more 

 numerons across Ihe bieast; the rufous on crown and 

 abont the face is slightly less extensive, darkcr on the 

 lalter; the ground color of iipper parts a very little deep- 

 er, the bhick markings on the head somewhat more con- 

 spicuous ; tips of greater wing-coverts, outer webs of pri- 

 maries and aluhi with narrower light markings; larsi 

 more heavily spotted witli dark brown. These southern 

 California specimens are ccrtainly not true flammeolus, 

 and allhoiigh they dilTer somewhat from idahoensis^ as 

 above explained, they still are so much like it that for 

 the present they must be referred to this form. Their 

 geographical conneclion with idaJioensis does not seem 

 perfeclly, clear, unless the yonng bird from Fort Crook, 

 California, above describcd ander flammeolus, be also 

 idahoenais. 



Mr. Charles E. Aiken writes that he had oncc in his 

 possession a Flammulaled Owl which was taken during 

 the fall of 1895 near Salt Lake City, Utah, and which he 

 remarked at the time differed much from the Colorado 

 specimens he had seen, belonging, as he now thiuks, to 

 Megascops f. idahoensis. The specimen unfortunately 

 was stolen, so that verilication of the subspecies is 

 now impossible. Inclusive of the records just given, the 

 localities from which Megascops flammeolus idahoensis is 

 known are as follows : 



Idaho. — Ketchum. 



"Washington. — Twenty miles above mouth of Snak(! 

 River. 



California. — San Bernardino Mountains; San Gor- 

 gonio Peak, San Bernardino Mts 



