ORDER RAPTORES. 175 



Bubo virginianus (GMELIN). 



RANGE. Greater part of North and South America. 



a. Bubo virginianus virginianus (GMELIN). Great Horned Owl. [375.] 

 Strix virginiana GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 287. (Virginia.) 



RANGE. Eastern North America from Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, 

 and Newfoundland south to the Gulf coast and Florida, west to Wisconsin, 

 eastern Minnesota, Iowa, and eastern Texas. 



6. Bubo virginianus palle*scens Stone. Western Horned Owl. [375a.] 



Bubo virginianus pallescens STONE, Amer. Nat., XXXI, March, 1897, 

 237. (18 miles southwest of San Antonio, Texas.) 



RANGE. Western United States (exclusive of the higher mountains) from 

 eastern Oregon, Montana, and Minnesota south to southeastern California, 

 Arizona, New Mexico, western Texas, and northeastern Mexico. 



c. Bubo virginianus subarcticus HOY. Arctic Horned Owl. [3756.] 



Bubo subarcticus HOY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI (1852), 1853, 211. 

 (Near Racine, Wisconsin.) 



RANGE. Breeds from northwestern Mackenzie and central Keewatin to 

 valley of the Saskatchewan, and probably in the glacier region of Mt. St. Elias 

 and Mt. Fairweather; south in winter to northern United States from Idaho 

 to Wisconsin. 



d. Bubo virginianus pacificus CASSIN. Pacific Horned Owl. [37 5d.] 



Bubo virginianus var. pacificus CASSIN, Illustr. Birds Calif., Texas, etc., 

 July, 1854, 178. ("the west" = California, as restricted.) 



RANGE. Interior of California, and northeast to Klamath Lakes, Oregon, 

 and southwest to San Diego region. 



e. Bubo virginianus saturates RIDGWAY. Dusky Horned Owl. [375c.] 



Bubo virginianus saturatus RIDGWAY, Orn. 40th Parallel, 1877, 572 (note). 

 (Simiahmoo, Washington.) 



RANGE. Pacific region from the interior of Alaska (Fort Yukon), Cook 

 Inlet, and Prince William Sound south along the coast to San Luis Obispo 

 County, California, and in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona and New Mexico; 

 east in winter to Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River. 



/. Bubo virginianus elachistus BREWSTER. Dwarf Horned Owl. [375e.] 



Bubo virginianus elachistus BREWSTER, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., XLI, 

 1902, 96. (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Lower California from San Quintin southward. 



