198 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Hai3. Warmer parts of North Amer'ca, from the Middle States, 

 Ohio Valley, and California southward through Mexico. 



Famil/ BLBONID.ffl. Horned Owls, etc. 



Genus ASIO Brisson. 

 Asio Briss. Cm. I. 1760, 28. Type, Strix otus Linn. 



^^. Asio wilsonianus (Less.). 



Aniericaa Loug-eared Owl. 



Otus wilsonianus Less. Traitd, 1831, no. 



Asio wilsonianus Coues, Check List, ed. 2, 1882, 81, No. 472. 



[B 51, C320, R39S'C 472.] 

 Hab. Temperate North America. 



367. Asio accipitrinus (Pall.). 



Short-eared OwL 



Strix accipitrina Pall. Reise Russ. Reichs. L 1771, 455. 

 Asio accipitrinus Newt. Yarr. Brit. B. ed. 4, I. 1872, 163. 



[652,0321, R396, C 473.] 



Hab. Throughout North America \ nearly cosmopolitan. 



Genus SYRNIX7M Savigny. 



Syrnium Savign. Descr. de I'figypte, Ois. 1809, 298. Type, Strix 

 stridula LiNN. 



368. Sjrmium nebulosum (Forst.). 



Barred Owl. 



Strix nebulosa Forst. Philos. Trans. XXII. 1772, 386. 

 Syrnium nebulosum Bom, Isis, 1828, 315. 



[B54, C323, R397, C476.] 



