32 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XIII. 



Lophostrix stricklandi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 733. 

 Lophostrix cristatus stricklandi Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXVI, 

 1917, p. 253 (Barbacoas, Colombia). 



Range: Southern Mexico to Panama and northern Colombia. 

 I : Panama. 



Genus SCOTIAPTEX Swainson. 



Scotiaptex Swainson, Classif, Bds. I, 1836, p, 327; II, 1837, p. 217 (Type Strix 



cinerea Gmelin). 



*Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa (Forster). Great Gray Owl. 



Strix nebulosa Forster, Philos. Trans., LXII, 1772, p. 386 (Severn River, 



Keewatin, Canada). 

 Strix cinerea Audubon, Om. Biog., IV, 1838, p. 364, pi. 351. 

 Syrnium cinereum Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 252. 

 Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



P- 635- 

 Range: Northern North America. 



tp: Canada (Alberta) 7; New Brunswick (Debia) i; Massachusetts 

 (near Boston) i. 



Genus STRIX Linnaeus. 



Strix Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed 10, I, 1758, p. 92. (Type by subsequent designa- 

 tion. Strix aluco Linn, or Strix stridula Linn.).* 



*Strix varia varia (Barton). Barred Owl. 



Strix varius Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, p. 11 (Pennsylvania, 



U. S. A.). 

 Syrnium nebulosum Audubon, Bds. Am., Oct., ed I, 1840, p. 132, pi. 36; Sharpe, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 257. 

 Strix varia varia Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 641. 



Range: Middle eastern North America, north to Newfoundland 

 and Manitoba, etc., south to northern Georgia, southern Illinois, etc., 

 and west to eastern Montana, Colorado, etc. 



7 : Massachusetts i ; Connecticut 2 ; Maine i ; Indiana i ; Illinois i ; 

 and Wisconsin i. 



*Strix varia alleni (Ridgway). Florida Barred Owl. 



Strix nebulosa alleni Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Ill, 1880, p. 8 (Clearwater, 



S. W. Florida). 

 Strix varia alleni Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 644. 



Range: Southern United States from eastern Texas to Florida and 

 north to Arkansas and South Carolina, 

 fix: Florida 9; Texas 2, 



» See Newton, Ibis, 1876, p. 94; Allen, Auk, 1908, p. 290. 



