370 Fourteenth Supplement to the A. 0. U. Check-List. [fuW 



358. Falco richardsonii Ridgway, becomes a subspecies of No. 

 357, and will stand as 



3576. Falco columbarius richardsonii (Ridgway). 

 [358.1.] Falco regulus Pallas. An earlier name occurs in 

 [358.1.] Falco aesalon TuNSTALL. 



Falco oEsalon Tunstall, Orn. Britannica, 1771, 1. (Rich- 

 mond, MS.) 



Family STRIGID.ffi. Barn Owls. This becomes 

 Family ALUCONID-ffi. Barn Owls. 



Genus STRIX Linn.eus. Becomes 



Genus ALUCO Fleming. 



Aliico Fleming, Philos. Zool., II, 1822, 236. Tjy-pe, Strix 

 flammea Linn^us, 1766 {nee Pontoppidan, 1763) = 

 Strix alba Scopoli, 1769. 



It is found that Strix cannot be used for the Barn Owls, since 

 the Barn Owl did not occur in the 10th edition of the Systema 

 Naturae (Strix aluco of 1758 proves to be the Wood Owl, or S. stridula 

 of the same date, and not, as generally supposed, the Barn Owl), 

 and Brisson, in 1760, fixed the t}'pe of Strix as S. aluco. (Cf. 

 Allen, Auk, XXV, July, 1908, 288-291.) The generic name 

 Strix is therefore transferred to the group hitherto known as 

 Syrnium, while the family name Bubonidae will give way to Strigidae. 

 (Cf. also: CouES, Key, ed. 5, II, 1903, 621.) 



No. 365 thus becomes 



365. Aluco pratincola (Bonaparte). 



Family BUBONID.ffi. This becomes 

 Family STRIGID.ffi. 



367. Asio accipitrinus (Pallas). An earlier name is found in 

 367. Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan). 



Strix flammea Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 617, pL 



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