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Man. i, 1832, 132.— AUD. Orn. Bioff. v, 1839, 273, pi. 432.— Sw. & EiCH 

 F. B. A. ii, 1831, 75 {''brachyota"). 

 SMx brachiotus Meyer & Wolf Tascheub. Vog. Deutschl. i, 1810, 43. 

 Ottis brachyotus Boie Isis, 1822, 549.— Aud. Syuop. 1839,28; B.A. Am. i, 1840, 



pi. 38.— Cass. Ulustr. 1854, 182.— ScL. & Salv. Nora. Neotr. 1873, IIH. 

 Otus (Brachyolns) brachyotus Eidgw. in B. B. &. R. Hist. N. Am. B. iii, 1874,22. 

 Asio brachyotus Macgill. Hist. Brit. B. iii, 1840, 4()1.— Stricki,. Orn. Syn. i, 

 1855, 209. 



Vlnla brachyotus Macgill. Rapac. B. Gt. Brit. , 412. 



JSf/olius brachyotus Keys. & Blas. Wirb. Eur. 1840, 32, 143. 

 "Strix uluht" Gmel. (jh'c Linn.) S. N. i, pt. 1,1788, 294.— Pall. Zoog. Rosso-As. i, 

 18.31, 322. 

 'Msio ultila " Less. Man. i, 1831, 116. 

 "Otus xdula" Cuv. Reg. An. i, 1817, 328. 

 Strix tripennis Schrank. Fannr. Boica, i, 1798, 112. 



? Strix palustris Bechst. Nat. Dentschl. ii, 1791, 344; ed.2, ii, 1805, 906. 

 Otus palustris Brehm Vog. Deutschl. 1831, 124. 



Brachyotus palustris Bonap. Comp. List, 1838, 7 ; Consp. i, 1850, 51. — Gould 

 B. Eur. pi. 40; B. Gt. Brit. pi. xxxii.— DeKay Zool. N. Y. ii, 1844, 28. pi. 

 12, f. 27.— COUES Key, 1872, 204; Check List, 1873, No. 321; B. N. W. 

 1874, 306. 

 Strix passerina, Var. B. JjATH. lud. Orn. i, 1790, 66. 

 Strix caspia Shaw Gen. Zool. vii. 1809, 272. 

 Strix ccgolius Pall.' Zoog. Rosso-As. i, 1831, 309. 



Brachyotus a:golius Bonap. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1854, 541. 

 Otus viicrocephalus Leach Syst. Cat. Brit. Mus. 1816, 11. 

 Strix brachynra Nilss. Orn. Suec. 1, 1817, 62. 

 Otus agrarius Brehm Vog. Deutschl. 1«31, 124. 



Brachyotus agrarius Brehm Naura. 1855, 270. 

 Brachyotus palustris europauis Bonap. Consp. i, 1850, 51. 

 Brachyotus palustris americanus Bonap. 1. c. 



Otus brachyotus americanus Max. J. f. O. 1858, 27. 

 Otus breviarius LiCHT. Nomencl. 1854, 6 (Brazil).— SCHLEG. Mus. P.-B. Oti, 1862, 4. 

 Brachyotus leucopsis Brehm Naum. 1855, 270. 



Brachyotus cassini Brewer Pr. Boston Soc. 1856, ; N. Am. Ool. i, 1857, 68. — 



Cass. Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 54; Orn. U. S.Expl.Exp. 1858, 108.— Baird 



Cat. N. Am. B. 1«59, No. , 



Otus cassini Gray Hand-1. i, 1869, 51. 



Otus brachyotus ji. cassini RiDGW. Field and Forest, June, 1877, 210. 

 Asio arcipitrinus, ji. Asio cassini Sharpe Cat. Striges Brit. Mus. 1875, 238. 

 Strix sanclwichensis Blox. Voy. Blonde, 1826, 250 (Sandwich Islands). 

 Asio sandvichensis Blyth Ibis, 1863, 27. 

 Asio accipitrinus, rf. Asio sandwicheusis Sharpe, 1. c. 

 Brachyotus gmelinii Malm. Goteb. och Bohusl. Fauna, 1877, 75. 

 La Chouelte Buff. PL Enl. 488. 

 Caspian Owl Lath. Synop. i, 1785, 147. 



2. ASIO PORTORICENSIS Eidgw. 

 {Porto Rican Short-eared Owl.) 



"Otus (Brachyotus) brachyotus" Ridgw. (part) in B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. iii, 1874, 



25 (spec, ex Porto Rico). 

 "Brachyotus cassinii" Gundl. .J. f. O. 1874, 307, 310. 

 Asio portoricensis Ridgw. MSS. 



