order eaptores. 171 



Genus SCOTIAPTEX Swainson. 



Scotiaptex Swainson, Classif. Birds, I, 1836, 327. Type, by subs, desig., 

 StrixcinereaOMEhiN = StrixnehulosaFonsT^n (Ridgway, 1887). 



Scotiaptex nebulosa (Forster). 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. 



a. Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa (J. R. Forster). Great Gray Owl. [370.] 

 Strix nebulosa Forster, PhUos. Trans., LXII, 1772, 424. (Severn River.) 



Range. — Boreal North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper Cana- 

 dian zones from tree limit in central Alaska and northwestern Mackenzie south 

 to central Alberta and central Keewatin; Winters in the southern Canadian 

 Provinces, straggling to northern California, Wyoming, Nebraska, Minnesota, 

 Indiana, Ohio, northern New Jersey, New York, and New England. 



b. [Scotiaptex nebulosa lapponica (Thunberg). Lapp Owl. [370a.] 



StTix lapponica Thtjnberq, K. Vet. Akad. nya Handl., XIX, 1798, 184. 

 (Lapland.) 



Range. — Northern parts of the Old World; accidental in Alaska (Norton 

 Sound).] 



Genus CRYPTOGLAXJX Richmond. 



Cryptoglaux Richmond, Auk, XVIII, April, 1901, 193. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Strix tengmalmi Gmelin = Strix funerea LiNN.sius. 



Cryptoglaux funerea (Linnaeus). 



Range. — Northern part of the Northern Hemisphere. 



a. [Cryptoglaux funerea funerea. Extrahmital.] 



6. Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni (Bonaparte). Richardson's Owl. 



[371.] 



Nyctale richardsoni Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 7. (Bangor, 

 Maine.) 



Range. — Northern North America. Breeds in Hudsonian and upper 

 Canadian zones from limit of trees in central Alaska and northern central 



