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GENUS SCOTIAPTEX SWAINSON. 



Scotiaptex SWAINSON, Classif. Birds, I, 1836, 327. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Strix cinerea GMELIN = Strix nebulosa FORSTER (Ridgway, 1887). 



Scotiaptex nebulosa (FORSTER). 



RANGE. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. 



a. Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa (J. R. FORSTER). Great Gray Owl. [370.] 

 Strix nebulosa FORSTER, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 424. (Severn River.) 



RANGE. Boreal North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper Cana- 

 dian zones from tree limit in central Alaska and northwestern Mackenzie south 

 to central Alberta and central Keewatin; winters in the southern Canadian 

 Provinces, straggling to northern California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota, 

 Indiana, Ohio, northern New Jersey, New York, and New England. 



6. [Scotiaptex nebulosa lappdnica (THUNBERG). Lapp Owl. [370a.] 



Strix lapponica THUNBERG, K. Vet. Akad. nya Handl., XIX, 1798, 184. 



(Lapland.) 



RANGE. Northern parts of the Old World; accidental in Alaska (Norton 

 Sound).] 



GENUS CRYPTOGLAUX RICHMOND. 



Cryptoglaux RICHMOND, Auk, XVIII, April, 1901, 193. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Strix tengmalmi GMELIN = Strix funerea LINNAEUS. 



Cryptoglaux funerea (LiNN^us). 



RANGE. Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. 



a. [Cryptoglaux funerea funerea. Extralimital.] 



b. Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni (BONAPARTE). Richardson's Owl. 



[371.] 



Nyctale richardsoni BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 7. (Bangor, 

 Maine.) 



RANGE. Northern North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper 

 Canadian zones from limit of trees in central Alaska and northern central 



