ORDER EAPTORES. 169 



Range. — North America. Breeds in Upper and Lower Austral 

 zones from northern Sacramento Valley, California, Colorado, Ne- 

 braska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and western New York south to the 

 Gulf States and southern Mexico, and casually to Oregon, Minne- 

 sota, Michigan, Ontario, Vermont, and Massachusetts. 



Family STRI6ID.S. Horned Owls, etc. 



Genus ASIO Beisson. 



Asia Beisson, Om., I, 1760, 477. Type, by tautonymy, [Ado] asio 

 Brisson = Strix otus Linn.bus. 



Asio wilsonidnus (Lesson). Long-eared Owl. [366.] 



Otus wilsonianus Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1830, 110. (New York.) 



Range. — Temperate North America. Breeds from central British 

 Columbia, southern Mackenzie, southern Keewatin, southern Quebec, 

 and Newfoundland south to southern California, northern Texas, 

 Arkansas, and Virginia; winters from southern Canada to Georgia, 

 Louisiana, and central Mexico. 



Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan). Short-eared Owl. [367.] 



Strix flammea Pontoppidan, Danske Atlas, I, 1763, 617, pi. xxv, fig. 

 (Sweden.) 



Range. — Nearly cosmopolitan. In North America breeds ir- 

 regularly and locally from northern Alaska and Aleutian Islands, north- 

 ern Mackenzie, northern Ungava, and Greenland south to California, 

 Colorado, southern Kansas, Missouri, northern Indiana, and Massa- 

 chusetts; winters from California, Wyoming, Minnesota, Indiana, 

 Ohio, and Massachusetts south to Louisiana, Cuba, and Guatemala; 

 common in Hawaii. 



Genus STRIX Linnaeus. 



Strix LiNN^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 92. Type, by subs, desig. 

 Strix aluco Linn^us (Newton, 1874). 



