MARCH 31, 1899 VoL. I, PP. 31-32 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW BARRED OWL FROM CORPUS CHRISTI, 
TEXAS. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Ir has been customary to give the range of the form of the 
barred owl having naked toes, Syrnzum nebulosum alleni Ridg., as 
extending from Georgia and Florida west along the Gulf Coast to 
Texas. Recently Isaw in Mr. M. Abbott Frazar’s store a fine 
series of barred owls that had just been sent him from Corpus 
Christi, Texas. They at once struck me as very different in color 
from Florida birds. I bought a pair, and, upon comparing them 
with the Florida form, found them so different, that I think it 
well to give the Texan form a subspecific name. 
The Florida form is constantly darker in color than true 
S. nebulosum. The Texas bird, like S. 7. a//en?, has naked toes, 
but is much paler in color throughout, with all the light markings 
more conspicuous, and the ground color above, pale yellow or 
cinnamon, the wings and tail in particular being very pallid. 
The differences in color between the Texas bird and true Syrazum 
nebulosum are almost as great as between the great horned owls 
of the prairie regions and of the Atlantic States. 
The new form may be known as 
Syrnium nebulosum helveolum' subsp. nov. 
Type, from Corpus Christi, Texas, 9 adult, no. 4551, coll. of E. A. and O. 
Bangs, collected Feb. 2, 1899, by Frank B. Armstrong. 
1 Helveolus — pale yellow, yellowish. 
