422 Fleming, The Saw-whet Owls. [oct. 



toes only partially feathered. The Ontario bird is natal brown 

 above and on the breast, the abdomen cinnamon buff, the ear- 

 coverts fuscous, superciliaries white, but not so clear as in the 

 Queen Charlotte Island bird. 



The type of scotoea is a very different bird from the adult females 

 just described, and differs from comparable mainland specimens 

 sufficiently to suggest that it might belong to a race subject to 

 dioromatism. The reddish brown of the pileum and back is pro- 

 nounced and forms a band across the interscapulary region, this 

 depth of color is only approached by a bird from Queratero, 

 Mexico,^ and is much brighter than a male from Victoria, B. C.,^ 

 which in turn can be matched by Ontario birds; the auricular 

 region in the tjpe of scotcpci is much more ochreous buff than either 

 the Victoria or Mexican birds, and is not matched by any other 

 birds before me; the tarsi and toes are cinnamon buff as in the 

 dark females, while in the Mexican bird the toes are white and the 

 tarsi only partially ochreous buff. 



That the type of the North-west Saw-whet Owl is a stray, and 

 does not represent the resident Queen Charlotte Island form is 

 possible, though, as I have pointed out, it differs from mainland 

 birds I have been able to compare it with, but against it are four 

 birds that undoubtedly belong to a dark race, and if it should prove 

 that the type of scotoea is not the light phase of this race the resident 

 bird on the Queen Charlotte Islands would be without a name in 

 which case I propose that it be called after Captain Allen Brooks, 

 who has done so much for British Columbia ornithology. 



Cryptoglaux acadica brooksi. 



Type. — 9 ad., Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Colum- 

 bia. September 19, 1915. No. 24629, collection of J. H. Fleming. 



Saw-whet Owls from the Pacific Slope of British Columbia and 

 Washington are ruddy brown in tone and these can be matched 

 in my Ontario series, but Mr. Ridgway refers to a more grayish 

 brown bird from the Rocky Mountain region, which may possibly 



1 d" ad. Sept. 10, 1896, Biological Survey, No. 155718. 



2 Feb. 29, 1893, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 153206. 



