Vol. X 

 1893 



1 Hasbrouck, Distribution of North American Megascofs. 259 



tains south at least to central New Mexico and northeastern 

 Arizona. 1 



Aikeni is unquestionably a bird of the Transition zone with 

 little probability of its occurrence in the Boreal, since it inhabits 

 the foothills, in which case it is probably one of the more recently 

 differentiated members of the group. From the few records of 

 its occurrence, it apparently is not found below five thousand or 

 above nine thousand feet. 



Colorado. El Paso Co. (Brewster, Auk, VIII, 1S91, 139); La Plata 

 Co. (Morrison, O. & O. XIII, 1S88, 115). 



New Mexico. Fort Wingate (Bendire, Special Bull. No. 1, U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. 1S92, 370). 



Megascops asio macfarlanei Brewst. Macfarlane's 

 Screech Owe. 



The type of this race, now in the Brewster collection, was 

 obtained at Fort Walla Walla, Washington. To this form may 

 be referred all Great Basin specimens of so-called kennicottii. 

 It ranges probably from near the eastern foothills of the Cascade 

 Mountains to western Montana, south to about Lat. 43 , and 

 north into southern British Columbia. It has a vertical range 

 of from one to probably seven thousand feet. 



Washington. Fort Walla Walla, type locality (Brewster, Bull. N. O. 

 C. VII, 27). 



Oregon. John Day River (Brewster, 1. c.) ; 20 in. S. W. Camp 

 Harney (Bendire, Special Bull. No. 1, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1S92, 371). 



Idaho. Nez Perce hid. Res. (spec, in Hasbrouck coll.). 



Montana. Hellgate (spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Megascops asio saturatus Brewst. Puget Sound Screech 



Owl. 



W T ith the exception of Kennicott's Screech Owl this is the 

 extreme northwestern representative of the family in the United 

 States, and is if anything more limited in distribution than 

 bendirei. Brewster's type was described from Victoria, British 

 Columbia, and the majority of records are from the same general 

 region. The race is apparently boreal in its affinities, and very 



1 Bendire, Special Bull. No. 1, U. S. N. M., 1892, 370. 



