ORDER RAPTORES. 169 



RANGE. North America. Breeds in Upper and Lower Austral 

 zones from northern Sacramento Valley, California, Colorado, Ne- 

 braska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western New York south to the 

 Gulf States and southern Mexico, and casually to Oregon, Minne- 

 sota, Michigan, Ontario, Vermont, and Massachusetts. 



FAMILY STRIGID-ffl. HORNED OWLS, ETC. 



GENUS ASIO BRISSON. 



Asio BRISSON, Orn., I, 1760, 477. Type, by tautonymy, [Asio] asio 

 BRISSON = Strix otus LINN^US. 



Asio wilsonianus (LESSON). Long-eared Owl. [366.] 



Otus wilsonianus LESSON, TraitS d'Orn., 1830, 110. (New York.) 



RANGE. Temperate North America. Breeds from central British 

 Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, southern Quebec, 

 and Newfoundland south to southern California, northern Texas, 

 Arkansas, and Virginia; winters from southern Canada to Georgia, 

 Louisiana, and central Mexico. 



Asio fldmmeus (PONTOPPIDAN). Short-eared Owl. [367.] 



Strix flammea PONTOPPIDAN, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 617, pi. xxv, fig. 

 (Sweden.) 



RANGE. Nearly cosmopolitan. In North America breeds ir- 

 regularly and locally from northern Alaska and Aleutian Islands, north- 

 ern Mackenzie, northern Ungava, and Greenland south to California, 

 Colorado, southern Kansas, Missouri, northern Indiana, and Massa- 

 chusetts; winters from California, Wyoming, Minnesota, Indiana, 

 Ohio, and Massachusetts south to Louisiana, Cuba, and Guatemala; 

 common in Hawaii. 



GENUS STRIX LINNJEUS. 



Strix LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Type, by subs, desig. 

 Strix aluco LINNAEUS (Newton, 1874). 



