170 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Strix varia BARTON. 



RANGE. Eastern North America, from Hudson Bay south to the 

 Gulf coast; west to the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. 



a. Strix varia varia BARTON. Barred Owl. [368.] 



Strix varius BARTON, Fragm. N. H. Perm., 1799, 11. (Pennsylvania.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from southern Keewatin, 

 southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to eastern Kansas and Georgia, 

 and west to eastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado. 



b. Strix varia alleni RIDGWAY. Florida Barred Owl. [368a.] 



Strix nebulosa alleni RIDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, 8. (Clear- 

 water, Florida.) 



RANGE. Coast strip of South Atlantic and Gulf States from eastern Texas 

 to Florida and South Carolina. 



c. Strix varia albogflva BANGS. Texas Barred Owl. [3686.] 



Strix varia albogilva BANGS, Auk, XXV, 1908, 316. (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas.) 



RANGE. Middle southern Texas. 



Strix occidentalis (XANTUS). 



RANGE. Western North America from the coast region of British 

 Columbia to northern Lower California and northern Mexico, east 

 to southern Colorado and New Mexico. 



a. Strix occidentalis occidentalis (XANTUS). Spotted Owl. [369.] 



Syrnium occidentals XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 193. 

 (Fort Tejon, California.) 



RANGE. Sonoran zones of California from southern San Joaquin Valley, 

 southward, and Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado south to north- 

 ern Lower California and northwestern Mexico. 



b. Strix occidentalis caurina (MERRIAM). Northern Spotted Owl. [369a.] 



Syrnium occidentale caurinum MERRIAM, Auk, XV, Jan., 1898, 40. (Mt. 

 Vernon, Skagit Valley, Washington.) 



RANGE. Coast region of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and 

 California (south on the coast to Point Reyes and in the Sierra Nevada to 

 Calaveras County). 



