Order STRIGIFORMES. 



Family BUBONIDAE. Owls. 



Genus ASIO Brisson. 

 Asio Brisson, Orn. I, 1760, p. 477 (Type Asio asio Brisson = Strix otus Linn.). 



*Asio wilsonianus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. 



Otus wilsonianus Lesson, Traite d'Om., 1831, p. no (New York, U. S. A.). 

 Strix otus (not of Linn.) Audubon, Orn. Biog., IV, 1838, p. 572, pi. 383. 

 Asio americanus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, P- 229. 

 Asio wilsonianus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 654. 



Range: Whole of Temperate North America south to central 

 Mexico. 



ti3 specimens from North America: (Maine i, Massachusetts i, 

 Connecticut 2, Wisconsin i, Illinois i, Colorado 2, New Mexico 3 and 

 California 2). 



*Asio stygius (Wagler). Stygian Owl. 



Nyctalops stygius Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1221 (Brazil), 



^510 5/3'giM5 Sharps, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 241; Cory, Auk, 1886, 



p. 466; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 189; Ridgway, BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. . 



No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 658; Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., X, 1916, p. 235. 



Range: Southern Mexico to Brazil and northern Argentina, Cuba, 

 and Isle of Pines. 



3: Nicaragua i; Colombia i; Island of Cuba i. 



Asio noctipetens^ Riley. Santo Domingo Owl. 



Asio noctipetens Riley, Smith. Misc. Coll., Vol. 66, No. 15, 1916, p. i (Constanza, 

 atl. 4000 ft., Santo Domingo). 



Range: Santo Domingo, Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 

 *Asio flammeus flammeus (Pontopp.). Short-eared Owl. 



Strix flammea Pontoppedan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, p. 617, pi. 25 (Sweden). 

 Asio accipitrinus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 234, part; Cory, Auk. 



1886, p. 468; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 100. 

 Otus brachyotus Audubon, Bds. Am., Oct., ed. I, 1840, p. 140, pi. 38. 



^ Asio noctipetens Riley: "Similar to Asio stygius (Wagler), but much darker, 

 with the lighter markings much restricted everywhere and entirely disappearing on the 

 interscapular region. Wing, 300; tail, 161; culmen from cere 21 mm." (Riley 1. c.) 



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