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itroit River; Port Nouillee; Wayne County, October; Saiilt Ste. 

 irie), Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon (Klamath Basin), and southern 

 itish Columbia (near mouth of Fraser River, 1 specimen) ; south- 

 ed over whole of Mexico, in States of Tamaidipas (Santa Fe de 

 esas), Nuevo Le6n, Coahuila (head of Las Vacas Creek), Chihud- 

 a, Sonora, Sinaloa (Presidio de Mazatlfin; Escuinapa), Colima 

 io de la Armeria; CoUma), Jalisco (Guadalajara; Ocotldn; Las 

 noas; San Mateo), Aguas Calientes, Guanajuato, Mexico (Valley 

 Mexico; Mexicalcingo), Puebla (Chietla; Llano de Chapulco; 

 rres de la Catedr&l), Vera Cruz (Orizaba), Oaxaca (Cacoprieto; 

 hudntepec City), Chiapas (Tonali; San Bartolom^), and Yucatan 

 bichen Itza; Izamdl; Tizimin; Calotmiil), and Territory of Tepic 

 res Marias Islands), and whole of Lower California, including Los 

 ronados and Todos Santos Islands ; southward in eastern Central 

 Qerica to eastern Nicaragua (Rio Escondido), at least in winter. 



Strix flammea (not of Linnaeus) Wilson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 57, pi. 50, fig. 2. — 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Dibt. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 28, part (North America).^ 

 BoNAPAKTE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 38; ii, 1828, 436 (crit.).— Kich- 

 ABDSON, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 99, in text. — Nuttail, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., Land Birds, i, 1832, 139. — Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 403, pi. 

 171; V, 1839, 388.— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 341 (Florida).— 

 BoucAED, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 456 (Yucatan; habits). 



S[trix] flammea Bonaparte, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 354; Obs. 

 Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [15]. 



[Strix] flammea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116, part. 



Ulula flammea J ATXDiNE, ed. Wilson's Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 264. 



Strix pratincola Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7 (based on Audubon, 

 Orn. Biog., ii, 403, pi. 171).— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 31, pi. 13, fig. 

 28. — ^Heermann, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1853, 261 (California); Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 34 (California; habits). — Cassin, 

 Illustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 116; in Baird, Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 47; Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862, 313 (San Francisco, Califor- 

 nia). — Newberry, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, chap, ii, 1857, 76 (San Fran- 

 cisco, San Diego, etc., California; Klamath Basin, Oregon). — Brewer, N. 

 Am. Oology, i, 1857, 62, pi. 4, fig. 38.— Bairb, Rep. U. S. and Mex. 

 Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 4 (Rio Frio and lower Rio Grande, Texas; Mon- 

 terey, Nuevo Leon; nesting habits); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 47. — 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1859, 390 (Oaxaca). — ^Wheaton, Ohio 

 Agric. Rep., 1860, no. 20 (Ohio).— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 

 49 (Ft. Whipple, Arizona, resident). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 

 1866, 281 (vicinity New York City).— Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 415.— Gray- 

 son, Proc. Boat. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 270 (Tres Marias Is.). — Allen, Am. 

 Nat., iii, 1870, 570 (Springfield, Massachusetts; Sachem's Head and Strat- 

 ford, Connecticut); 646 (Lynn, Massachusetts). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 

 2 (rare). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 163 (Llano de 

 Chapulco and Forres de la Catedral, Puebla). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 365. — Dutchbr, Auk, iii, 

 1886, 439 (Flushing, Long Island, breeding). — Chapman, Auk, iii, 1886, 485 

 (Englewood, New Jersey, Ispec, Aug. 26). — Ridgway, Orn. Illinois, i, 1889, 

 400. — Brewster, Auk, vii, 1890, 205 (Westport, Massachusetts, Dec. 30, 



