TYPICAL OWLS: Family Strigidae [ 337 ] 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Over most of California and extreme southern Oregon. In 

 Oregon: Found only in southern Klamath, Jackson, Josephine, and Curry Counties. 

 (See Figure 7.) 



THE REFERENCES by Prill (1895 a) and Woodcock (1901) to the California 

 Screech Owl refer to Brewster's Screech Owl (0. a. brews tert), which has 

 since been described from the Willamette Valley with Salem as the type 

 locality. With these records assigned to the proper form, there are now 

 no published records of the California Screech Owl for Oregon. We find, 

 however, that the birds from the extreme southern edge of the State may 

 properly be referred here. There are four specimens in Jewett's collec- 

 tions as follows: from Klamath County (no definite date); Eagle Point, 

 Jackson County (March 2.1, 192.5); Sixes, Curry County (July 2.3, 1910); 

 and Agness, Curry County (September 18, 1919). Gabrielson has one 

 bird taken near Grants Pass (September 12., 1934). These birds are un- 

 doubtedly closer to the California form than to the one described from 

 the Willamette Valley. 



Flammulated Screech Owl: 



Otus flammeolus (Kaup) 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Toes entirely naked to extreme base; ear tufts small; upper parts 

 grayish, finely mottled and marked with blackish; stripes on sides of back yellowish 

 brown or orange, white beneath the surface; under parts whitish, marked with 

 broad mesial streaks and narrow cross-bars; face, throat, and upper parts sometimes 

 washed with orange brown. Young: upper parts mottled transversely with gray 

 and white, but without black streaking; under parts similarly but coarsely and 

 regularly barred. Wing: 5.10-5.60, tail 2.. 60-3.00." (Bailey) Nest: In old wood- 

 pecker holes. Eggs: 3 to 4, white. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: From southern British Columbia, eastern Washington, and 

 Idaho south to Central America. In Oregon: Extremely rare resident of eastern 

 Oregcn. 



THE FLAMMULATED SCREECH OWL, a tiny bird no bigger than the Pygmy 

 Owl, but with prominent ear tufts that are exact duplicates of those 

 adorning its larger namesakes, is one of the least known of Oregon owls 

 and is listed from the State on the basis of two specimens only. Jewett 

 (192.80 recorded as the first Oregon specimen one taken at Old Fort 

 Warner on Hart Mountain, eastern Lake County, May 2.5, 1917. We 

 find an earlier skin, however, in the Biological Survey collection (No. 

 2.59602.), taken June 9, 1916, at Homestead, Baker County, by H. H. 

 Sheldon, a record of which has never been published. These are our only 

 definite records. 



Montana Horned Owl: 



Bubo virginianus occidentalis Stone 



DESCRIPTION. "Adults: Ear tufts blackish; iris bright yellow; ring around face 

 black; throat white; rest of under parts white or buffy, mottled and barred with 



