260 Hasbrouck, Distribution of North American Megascops. X^Xv 



little thus far is known concerning it, save that it is known from 

 Salem, Oregon, to the shores and islands of Puget Sound, and 

 from the mainland west of the Cascades. 



British Columbia. Victoria (type spec, in coll. Wm. Brewster) ; Neiv 

 Westminster (spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Cadboro Bay and Comax (spec, 

 in coll. Wm. Brewster). 



Washington. Fort Vancouver (Sucklej, i860, given as kennicottii). 



Oregon. Salem (Brewster, Auk, VIII, 1891, 141). 



Megascops flammeolus (Kaztp). Flammulated Screech 



Owl. 



This species, the type of which is deposited in the Dresden 

 Museum, is the most widely distributed of any of the genus 

 inhabiting North America ; its range extending over much of the 

 country covered by both the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Moun- 

 tain ranges, and like triqhopsis extending far down the Mexican 

 plateau. It has been taken in northern California, southeastern 

 Arizona, in Colorado nearly to the Wyoming line, at Mount 

 Orizaba in Mexico, and as far south as Duefias, Guatemala. It 

 will thus be seen that the Flammulated Screech Owl is distrib- 

 uted over portions of both the Upper and Lower Sonoran, Tran- 

 sition, (and probably portions of the Boreal), and Tropical 

 faunas, and from the records of capture is apparently not found 

 at a lower altitude than four thousand feet. The United States 

 records are more in number than has been generally supposed — 

 sixteen in all (so far. as learned) , of which Colorado can lay claim 

 to eleven. 



The species has been recorded from the following localities. 



California. San Bernardino Mts. (spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Fort 

 Crook and Big Trees (Land Birds Pacific Coast, 1890, 51). 



Arizona. 30 miles S. of Camp Apache (Wheeler Surv. Rep. Orn. Spec. 

 1874, 135) ; Mouth of Little Colorado River (Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, 

 No. 3, 1S90, 91). 



Colorado. Estes Park (spec, in U. S. Nat. Mus.) ; Gold Hill and 

 Idaho Springs (Bendire, Special Bull. No. 1, U. S. Nat. Mus. 1892, 

 375) 5 Boulder (Mrs. Maxwell, Field and Forest, 1877, 210) ; Mosca Pass 

 (Ingersoll, Bull. N. O. C. V, 1879, I2I > and Brewster, ibid., VIII, 1883, 

 123) ; near Colorado City (Brewster, 1. c. ) ; Fremont Co. (Deane, Bull. 

 N. O. C IV, 1879, iSS) ; Loveland (Smith, O. & O. 1S91, 27— three 

 specimens). 



