202 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



373 f. Megascops asio trichopsis (WAGL.). 



Mexican Screech Owl. 



Scops trichopsis WAGL. I sis, 1832, 276. 



Megascops asio trichopsis RIDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 1885, 355. 



[B , C , R 403, C 470.] 

 HAB. New Mexico, Arizona, Lower California, and Western Mexico. 



374. Megascops flammeolus (KAUP). 



Flamnmlated Screech Owl. 



Scops flatnmeola KAUP, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. IV. 1862, 226. 

 Megascops flammeolus STEJN. Auk, II. April, 1885, 184. 



[B , C 3 i 9 , R 4 o 4 , C 47 i.] 



HAB. Guatemala and Central Mexico, north to Colorado and 

 California. 



GENUS BUBO CUVIER. 

 Bubo Cuv. Reg. An. 1817, 351. Type, Strix bubo LINN. 



375. Bubo virginianus (GMEL.). 



Great Horned Owl. 



Strix virginia?ia GMEL. S. N. I. i. 1788, 287. 



Bubo virginianus BONAP. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 6. 



[B 4 8, C 3 i7, R 4 Q5, C 4 62.] 



HAB. Eastern North America, west to the Mississippi Valley, and 

 from Labrador south to Costa Rica. 



375<z. Bubo virginianus subarcticus (Hov). 



Western Horned Owl. 



Bubo subarcticus HOY, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VI. 1852, 211. 

 Bubo virginianus $. subarcticus RIDGW. Orn. 4oth Par. 1877, 57 2 - 



[B 48, part, C 317 a, part, R 405 a, part, C 463, part.] 



HAB. Western United States from the Great Plains westward; 

 southward to the Mexican table-lands. East, casually, to Wisconsin 

 and Illinois. 



