ORDER RAPTORES. 169 
RanceE.— North America. Breeds in Upper and Lower Austral 
zones from northern Sacramento Valley, California, Colorado, Ne- 
braska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western New York south to the 
Gulf States and southern Mexico, and casually to Oregon, Minne- 
sota, Michigan, Ontario, Vermont, and Massachusetts. 
Famity STRIGIDA. HornNED Owls, ETC. 
GENus ASIO Brisson. 
Asio Brisson, Orn., I, 1760, 477. Type, by tautonymy, [Asio] asio 
Brisson = Strix otus LINN&uUSs. 
Asio wilsoniénus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. [366.] 
Otus wilsonianus Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1830, 110. (New York.) 
RanGE.— Temperate North America. Breeds from central British 
Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, southern Quebec, 
and Newfoundland south to southern California, northern Texas, 
Arkansas, and Virginia; winters from southern Canada to Georgia, 
Louisiana, and central Mexico. 
Asio flammeus (PoNTOPPIDAN). Short-eared Owl. [367.] 
Strix flammea Pontoppipan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 617, pl. xxv, fig. 
(Sweden.) 
RanGE.— Nearly cosmopolitan. In North America breeds ir- 
regularly and locally from northern Alaska and Aleutian Islands, north- 
ern Mackenzie, northern Ungava, and Greenland south to California, 
Colorado, southern Kansas, Missouri, northern Indiana, and Massa- 
chusetts; winters from California, Wyoming, Minnesota, Indiana, 
Ohio, and Massachusetts south to Louisiana, Cuba, and Guatemala; 
common in Hawaii. 
Genus STRIX LINN ZXUS. 
Strix Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Type, by subs. desig. 
Strix aluco Linnx=us (Newton, 1874). 
