ORDER RAPTORES. ba 
GENuS SCOTIAPTEX SwWaInson. 
Scotiapter Swatnson, Classif. Birds, I, 1836, 327. Type, by subs. desig., 
Striz cinerea GMELIN = Strix nebulosa Forster (Ridgway, 1887). 
Scotidptex nebulésa (ForsTER). 
Rance.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. 
a. Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa (J. R. Forster). Great Gray Owl. [370.] 
Striz nebulosa Forster, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 424. (Severn River.) 
RanGE.— Boreal North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper Cana- 
dian zones from tree limit in central Alaska and northwestern Mackenzie south 
to central Alberta and central Keewatin; winters in the southern Canadian 
Provinces, straggling to northern California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota, 
Indiana, Ohio, northern New Jersey, New York, and New England. 
b. [Scotiaptex nebulosa lappoénica (THUNBERG). Lapp Owl. [370a.] 
Striz lapponica THunBuRG, K. Vet. Akad. nya Handl., XIX, 1798, 184. 
(Lapland.) 
Rance.— Northern parts of the Old World; accidental in Alaska (Norton 
Sound).] 
Genus CRYPTOGLAUX RicHMonp. & 
Cryptoglaux RicuMonp, Auk, XVIII, April, 1901, 193. Type, by orig. 
desig., Strix tengmalmi GMELIN = Strix funerea LINN&XUS. 
Cryptoglaux funérea (LINN 2Us). 
RancE.— Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. 
a. [Cryptoglaux funerea funerea. Extralimital.] 
b. Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni (Bonaparte). Richardson’s Owl. 
[371.] 
Nyctale richardsoni BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 7. (Bangor, 
Maine.) 
Rance.— Northern North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper 
Canadian zones from limit of trees in central Alaska and northern central 
