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Pontoppidan's Strix flammea is based on Liniifeus, Fauna 

 Suecica, 1761, no. 73, which, in turn, is founded on Rudbeck's 

 drawing. This is generally admitted to represent the Short-eared 

 Owl. (Cf. also: Nilsson, Orn. Suecica, 1817, 62, and Billberg, 

 Syn. Faunae Scand., I, ii, 1828, 116.) (Richmond, MS.) 



Genus SYRNIUM Savigny. This becomes 



Genus STRIX Linn.eus. 



Strix LiNNiEus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Type, Strix 

 aluco LiNN.EUS, no. 6 = no. 9, or Strix stridula, of the same 

 author. (Cf. Allen, Auk, XXV, July 1908, 290.) 



The following changes are required inthc nomenclature of Nos. 

 368 to 369a: 



368. Strix varia Barton. 



368a: Strix varia alleni (Ridgw^w). 



3686. Strix varia albogilva Bangs. Replaces Syrnium nebulo- 

 sum helveolum Bangs, preoccupied by Strix helvola Lighten- 

 stein, 1842. (C/. Bangs, Auk, XXV, 1908, 316.) 



369. Strix occidentalis (Xantus). 



369a. Strix occidentalis caurina (Merriam). 



Genus CRYPTOGLAUX Richmond. This becomes 



Genus GLAUX Morris. 



Glaux Morris, Naturalist (Wood's), II, 1837, 123. Type^ 

 Strix tengnialmi Gmelin = Strix funerea Linn.eus. (Rich- 

 mond, MS.) 



371. Cryptoglaux tengmalmi richardsoni (Bonaparte). This 

 becomes 



371. Glaux funerea richardsoni (Bonaparte). 



Strix funerea Linn^us proves to be equivalent to S. tengmalmi 

 Gmelin. (Cf. Lonnberg, Journ. f. Orn., 1906, 531; also, Pon- 

 TOPPiDAN, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 617, pi. xxv; Nilsson, Orn. 

 Suecica, 1817, 66; Billberg, Syn. Faunae Scand., I, ii, 1828, 115.) 



