BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 93 
According to Mr. Ridgway, the Barn Owl was found by Mr. Xantus at San 
José del Cabo in December and January, and at Caduana in November. Mr. 
Belding does not mention it in any of his lists, nor was it actually taken by 
Mr. Frazar, but the latter obtained a number of its wing and tail feathers on 
the Sierra dela Laguna. Mr. Bryant heard the bird at Magdalena and again 
near San Quintin, and Mr. Anthony reports it as “ common in the northwest- 
ern part of the territory, up to an altitude of 3,500 feet, inbabiting old mines” 
(Bryant). 
On the Pacific coast the Barn Owl ranges from California to southern 
Mexico. It is apparently locally resident wherever found. 
Asio accipitrinus (PAtt.). 
SHORT-EARED OWL. 
Asio accipitrinus Ripeway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, footnote (Mira- 
flores); Bryant, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 284 (Miraflores). 
The only record of the occurrence of this species in the Cape Region seems 
to be that given by Mr. Ridgway of a specimen! taken by Xantus at Mira- 
flores on November 25. In the upper portion of the Peninsula Mr. Anthony 
has found it “along the coast region, north of San Fernando, in winter, and 
has frequently flushed . . . scattered companies of six to ten, from the salt 
grass about the bays. He has not seen them above 800 feet elevation” 
(Bryant). 
The Short-eared Owl, at one season or another, visits nearly every part of 
the American continent, for it is a great wanderer, and decidedly more given 
to extended migrations than is any other species of its tribe. It breeds abun- 
dantly in the fur countries and sparingly or locally in the United States, just 
how far to the southward is not definitely known. 
Megascops xantusi, sp. nov. 
XANTUS’s SCREECH OWL. 
Scops asio, var. maccalli BarrD, BREWER, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Amer. Birds, HL 
1874, 52, 53, part (descr. first full, but incomplete plumage from Cape St. 
Lucas ; crit.). 
Scops trichopsis? (not of WacitEeR) Ripeway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 533, 
footnote (Cape St. Lucas). 
(2?) Scops Bextpine, Jbid., VI. 1888, 349 (Victoria Mts.; Agua Caliente ; Mira- 
flores). Ripeway, Jbdid. (crit.). 
1 Mr. Ridgway writes me that he cannot find this specimen, and that he does 
not “ know what can have become of it.” 
