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Family STRIGIDAE : Typical Owls 



Genus OTUS Pennant 



Otus Pennant, Indian Zool., 1769, p. 3. Type, by monotypy, Otus bakkamoetia 

 Pennant. 



Otus asio (Linnaeus) : Screech Owl 



Strix asio Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 92. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Cavern deposits near 

 Lecanto, Florida; cave deposits of Tennessee; San Josecito Cave, 

 Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. Late Pleistocene : Potter Creek Cave, Shasta 

 County, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, and Rancho La Brea, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



Otus flammeolus (Kaup) : Flammulated Owl 



Scops (Megascops) Hammeola Kaup, in Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1852 (1853), 

 p. III. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon. Late Pleistocene : Samwel Cave,^^ Shasta County, 

 California. 



Otus trichopsis (Wagler) : Whiskered Owl 

 Scops trichopsis Wagler, Isis von Oken, Heft 3, March 1832, col. 276. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon. 



Genus BUBO Dumgril 



Bubo DuMERiL, Zool. Analytique, 1806, p. 34. Type, by tautonymy, Strix 

 bubo Linnaeus. 



Bubo virginianus (Gmelin) : Horned Owl 

 Strix virginiaiia Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. i, 1788, p. 287. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon ; 

 Samwel Cave, Shasta County, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, 

 McKittrick, Kern County, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia. Pleistocene : San Josecito Cave, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. 



Bubo Sinclair! Miller 



Bubo sinclairi L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 6, 

 No. 16, Oct. 28, 191 1, p. 393, figs. 4-5. 



Late Pleistocene: Samwel and Potter Creek (type locality) caves, 

 Shasta County, California. 



i'^ Recorded originally as Micropallas whitneyi. See Miller, L. H., Trans. San 

 Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 19, Mar. 31, 1933, pp. 209-210. 



