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1829, p. 84; type by monotypy, Falco lagopus Briinnich); and Butaetes 

 Lesson (Traite d'Ornith., May 8, 1830, p. 83; type, by monotypy, Falco 

 lagopus Gmelin) . The first of these becomes, therefore, the tenable name 

 for the Rough-legged Hawks, since it is not preoccupied by Triorches 

 Leach (Syst. Cat. Indig. Mamm. and Birds Brit. Mus., 1816, p. 10; type, 

 by monotypy, Pandion fluvialis Savigny = Falco haliaetus Linnajus), for 

 the latter must be regarded as a different word from a nomenclatural stand- 

 point because of its different classical ending. By reason of this the two 

 forms of the Rough-legged Hawk will stand as follows: 



Triorchis lagopus lagopus (Briinnich). 



Triorchis lagopus sanctijohannis (Gmelin). 



Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



Harris's Hawk {Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi) in Kansas. — A fine 

 specimen of a female Harris's Hawk was killed seven and one half miles 

 southwest of Lawrence, Kansas, December 25, 1918, by Fred Hastie and 

 is now in the skin collection of the University of Kansas Museum. 



So far as I know this Hawk has not been reported before from the state. — 

 C. D. Bunker, Lawrence, Kansas. 



The Proper Name for the Texas Barred Owl. — Some time ago (' The 

 Auk,' XXV, No. 3, July, 1908, page 316) Mr. Outram Bangs renamed his 

 Syrnium nebulosum helveolum (Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, I, March 31, 

 1899, page 31) because, when transferred to the genus Strix, it was sup- 

 posedly preoccupied by Strix helvola Lichtenstein (Verz. Samml. Saugeth. 

 und Vogeln Kaffernlande, 1842, page 11). Since, however, both helveola 

 and helvola are classical Latin adjectives differing in the possession of an 

 additional syllable, they are to be regarded as different words, and there- 

 fore by neither the International Code of Nomenclature nor the A. O. U. 

 Code would they conflict when employed in the same genus. It thus 

 becomes necessary to return to the earlier name for the Texas Barred Owl, 

 and it will consequently stand as Strix varia helveola (Bangs). — Harry C. 

 Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



Concerning a Note of the Long-eared Owl (Asio wilsonianus) . — 

 I was interested in the note of Mr. G. Clyde Fisher in the last number of 

 ' The Auk,' with similar heading to the above. I can furnish information 

 which will help to verify the conclusions which Mr. Fisher reached as to 

 the source of the sound he heard. On August 9, 1914, while camped near 

 Red Eagle Lake, in the Glacier National Park, I heard a sound of some 

 night bird, which was very similar to the sound described by Mr. Fisher, 

 and for which I could give no better description than the phrase he uses, 

 I tried to investigate the source of the sound, and soon found several owls, 

 at least four being seen at once. It was moonlight at the time. The 

 country consisted of a mountain, meadow, dotted with clumps of fir trees, 

 and the Owls were easily seen as they flew from one clump to another at 



