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Genus SCOTIAPTEX Swainson. 



Scotiaptex Swains. Classif. B. II. 1837, 217. Type, Strix 

 cinerea Gmel. 



370. Scotiaptex cinerea (Gmel.). 



Great Gray Owl. 



Strix cinerea Gmel. S. N. I. i. 1788, 291. 

 Scotiaptex cinerea Swains. Classif. B. II. 1837, 217. 



[B 53, C 322, R 399, C 474.] 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic America, straggling southward, in winter, 

 to southern New England, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, 

 Idaho and northern Montana. 



[370^.] Scotiaptex cinerea lapponica (Retz.). 



Lapp Owl. 



Strix lapponica Retz. Faun. Suec. 1800, 79. 



Scotiaptex cinerea lapponica Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. 1887, 260. 



[B— , C— , R399'^» C 475-] 

 Geog. Dist. — Arctic portions of the Old World ; accidental in 

 Alaska (Norton Sound). 



Genus NYCTALA Brehm. 

 Nyctala Brehm, Isis, 1828, 1271. Type, Strix tengmalmi Gyim., 

 371. Nyctala tengmalmi richardsoni (Bonap.). 



Richardson's Owl. 



Nyctale richardsoni Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 7. 

 Nyctale tengmalmi var. richardsoni Ridgw. Am. Nat. VI. May 

 1872, 285. 



[B 55, C 327, R 400, C 482.] 



Geog. Dist. — Arctic America, south in winter into the northern 

 United States. Breeds from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Manitoba 

 northward. 



