NO. 9 HERON AND OWL FROM VENEZUELA — FRIEDMANN 3 



Range. — Known only from the type locality. 



In his review of the neotropical short-eared owls, Bangs (Proc. 

 New England Zool. CI., vol. 6, pp. 95-98, 1919) rightly criticizes the 

 tendency in literature to give the American range of the bird as North 

 and South America from the Arctic Ocean to Patagonia, and goes 

 on to say that he ". , . can find no record for the. short-eared owl 

 from anywhere in southern Central America, nor in the vast forested 

 regions of northern South America. Even in migration North Amer- 

 ican birds range only about as far as Guatemala and Cuba. In South 

 America, except for the very distinct local form (bogotcnsis) . . . 

 the short-eared owl is confined to the open regions, south of the 

 forest, in temperate southern South America. . . ." The new race 

 described in this paper is the first evidence of a connecting link in 

 the open areas of Venezuela. 



