BIKDS OP NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 627 



Nyctala tmgmalmi richardsgni Cotjes, Check Liat, 2d ed., 1882, ao. 482. — ^Meehiam, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 237 (Point de Monts, Quebec, vrinter resi- 

 dent; notes, etc.).— Fox, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 61 (Hollis, New 

 Hampshire, Dec. 15, 1879).— Jbncks, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, 1883, 122 

 (near Providence, Rhode Island, Dec. 18, 1882). — ^Ambeican Oenitholo- 

 GisTs' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 371. — Seton, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 155 (Bed River, Manitoba, resident; Big Plains, Manitoba, rare). — 

 Browne, Auk, ii, 1885, 384 (Framingham, Massachusetts, Jan. 1, 1885). — 

 Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 150 (Nulato, Yukon delta, etc.; 

 habits).— RiDGWAT, Om. Illinois, i, 1889, 412.— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiii, 1890, 542 (Winnipeg, etc., Manitoba; probably resident). — ^Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 347, pi. 12, fig. 6 (egg).— Meeeill, 

 (J. C), Auk, xiv, 1897, 353 (Ft. Sherman, Idaho, 2 specs., spring of 1894).— 

 Cooke, Bull. 44, Col. Agric. Exp. Sta., 1898, 160 (Crested Butte, Colorado, 

 Oct. 14, 1896); Bull. 56, 1900, 205 (Breckenridge, Colorado, Dec. 28, 1882).— 

 Rhoads, Auk, xvi, 1899, 311 (Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania, March 12, 1896). — 

 Beooks, Auk, XX, 1903, 281 (Quesnelle, Caribou Distr., Brit. Columbia). — 

 Dbanb, Auk, XX, 1903, 305 (Kenilworth, Illinois, Dec. 26, 1902; Rockford, 

 Illinois, Oct. 15, 1884), 433 (Cicero, Illinois, Dec, 1902).— Thayee, Auk, 

 xxiii, 1906, 222 (Hyde Park, Massachusetts, Nov. 26, 1905).— Robbbts, in 

 Wilcox's Hist. Becker Co., Minnesota, 1907, 174 (occasional in winter). 



N[yctala\ tengmalmi richardsoni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 512. — 

 RiDGWAT, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 260. 



Cryptoglaux tengmalmi richardsoni Amesic an Oenitholoqists' Union Committbe, 

 Auk, xxi, July, 1904, 413. — Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, 

 in winter; 9 records). — ErpHiG, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 111 (Ottawa, Ontario, Nov. 



16, 1906).— Allen (G. M.), Auk, xxv, 1908, 235 (Milford, Maine, Dec. 22, 

 1906).— Bdson, Auk, xxv, 1908, 433 (Glacier, Whatcom Co., Washington, 

 1 spec). — Keemode, Provincial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 46 (Okanogan and 

 Chilliwack, Brit. Columbia). 



Glauxfunerea richardsoni American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, 

 xxv, July, 1908, 371.— t)AWS0N, Auk, xxv, 1908, 484 (near Glacier, Wash- 

 ington, Jan. 17, 1907). 



Cryptoglaux funerea richardsoni Grinnbll (J.), Condor, xi, 1909, 205 (Forty-mile, 

 Yukon Terr.). — ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 

 1910, 171. — Bowles, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 173 (Bellingham, Washington, Jan. 



17, 1905). 



Aegolius (oder Cryptoglaux) tengmalmi richardsoni Hartbet, Die Vogel der 

 Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 1913, 998 (geog. range, etc.). 



Nyctale hirtlandi (not N. hirtlandii Hoy) Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 48, part (crit., as to 

 plumage of young; etc). 



ScotophiUs acadica (not Strix acadica Gmelin) Jaedine, Contr. Om., 1848, 81 

 (Bermudas, casual; see Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1850, 7.) 



CRYPTOGLAUX ACADICA (Gmelin). 



SAW-WHET OWL. 



Adults {sexes dliTce). — General color of upper parts grayish bister 

 to nearly vandyke brown; °' the pUeum narrowly streaked with white, 



o The more grayish brown specimens from the Rocky Mountains, the more reddish 

 brown ones from the Pacific coast (British Columbia to Jalisco, Mexico), the average 

 color of eastern specimens being intermediate, though averaging decidedly near that 

 of Pacific coast specimens. 



