170 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Strix varia Barron. 
RancGEe.— Eastern North America, from Hudson Bay south to the 
Gulf coast; west to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. 
a. Strix varia varia Barron. Barred Owl. [368.] 
Strix varius Barton, Fragm. N. H. Penn., 1799, 11. (Pennsylvania.) 
Rance.— Eastern North America. Breeds from southern Keewatin, 
southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to eastern Kansas and Georgia, 
and west to eastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado. 
b. Strix varia alleni Ripagway. Florida Barred Owl. [368a.] 
Strix nebulosa allent Ripaway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., III, 1880, 8. (Clear- 
water, Florida.) 
Rance.— Coast strip of South Atlantic and Gulf States from eastern Texas 
to Florida and South Carolina. 
c. Strix varia albogilva Banas. Texas Barred Owl. ([368D.] 
Strix varia albogilua Banas, Auk, XXV, 1908, 316. (Corpus Christi, 
Texas.) 
Rance.— Middle southern Texas. 
Strix occidentalis (XaNTUs). 
RanGcE.— Western North America from the coast region of British 
Columbia to northern Lower California and northern Mexico, east 
to southern Colorado and New Mexico. 
a. Strix occidentalis occidentalis (Xantus). Spotted Owl. [369.] 
Syrnium occidentale Xantus, Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 193. 
(Fort Tejon, California.) 
RaneeE.— Sonoran zones of California from southern San Joaquin Valley, 
southward, and Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado south to north- 
ern Lower California and northwestern Mexico. 
b. Strix occidentalis caurina (Merriam). Northern Spotted Owl. (369a.] 
Syrnium occidentale caurinum Merriam, Auk, XV, Jan., 1898, 40. (Mt. 
Vernon, Skagit Valley, Washington.) 
Ranee.— Coast region of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and 
California (south on the coast to Point Reyes and in the Sierra Nevada to 
Calaveras County). 
