EAPTORES— STRIGIDAE— S. C UNIOULARI A VAE. H YPOGAE A. 409 



lacks the numerous rounded reddish-white spots, but each feather has a 

 single elongated" white spot at the end of the shaft. 



SPEOTYTO CU2S[IGCLAKIA (Mol.), var. HYPOG^A, (Bou.). 

 Biirroiving^ Owl. 



^tr'ix hypogcea, Bon., Am. Orn., i, 1825, 72. 



Athene hypogwa^ Bd., Staiis. Kep. Exp. Great Salt Lake, 1852, 314. — Woodh., Sit- 

 greave's E.xp. Zuni cSc Col. Eiv., 1854, C2.— Newb., P. E. E. Eep., vi, 1857, 

 77.— Bd., U. S. & Me.x. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Biiils, 5.— Henry, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Plilla., 1859, 105 (New Mexico).-Coop. & Suckl., P. R. 

 E. Eep., xii,pt.ii, 18C0, 157.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xli, 18C2, 154.— 

 Cooper, Birds Cal , i, 1870, 418 {hypngwn). — Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. 

 Terr., 1870, 462 (hyimgwa). — Allen, Bui. Mus. Corap. Zool., 1872, 180 

 (western edge of plains). — Snow, Birds Kan., 1872, 5. — Hold., Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., 1872, 208 {hy2nig(va).—M-EnRiAM, U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 

 1872, GOO (Utah ; Idaho). 



Speotyto cunicularia var. hypogwa, CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 307. — Bd., Brew., & 

 EiDG., N. A. Birds, iii, 1874, 90. — Yarrow & Henshaw, Eep. Orn. Specs., 

 1872, Wheeler's Expcd., 1874, 25.— Henshaw, An. Lye. Nat. Hi.st. N. Y., 

 xi, 1874, 9.— Jf?., An. List Birds Utah, 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874,48.— 

 J(?., Eep. Orn. Specs., 1873, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 130.— CouES, Birds 

 Northwest, 1874, 322.— Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., June, 1874, 34. 



Athene cunicularia, Bd., P. E. E. Eep., Beckwith's Eoute, x, 1857, 13. — Kennebly, P. 

 E. E. i:ep., Whipple's Eoute, 1859, 20.— Heekm., P. E. E. Eep., x, pt. ii, 

 1859, 33.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 (Fort Tejon, 

 Cal.). — Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 5. — Cooper, 

 Birds Cal., i, 1870, 437. 



This curious owl appears not to be a very abundant resident either in 



Arizona or New Mexico, at least in those portions visited by the survey 



during the past season. They prefer the lower plains, and are not found, 



I think, at a higher altitude than 6,000 feet. Near Zuni, N. Mex., Camps 



Grant and Bowie, Ariz., and a few other places, they were seen, but never 



away from the settlements of the prairie dogs. Their sight in the day 



appears to be remarkably good, and, as all I saw were very shy, it proved 



