BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 643 



northern Ontario (Parry Sound), southern Keewatm, Manitoba 

 (Winnipeg; Red. River Valley; Rat Portage; Portage la Prairie), 

 and Saskatchewan (Chemawaywin) ; west to eastern Montana (Gal- 

 latin County; Yellowstone River; Musselshell River), eastern Wyo- 

 ming (Bear Lodge, Crook County), and eastern Colorado (Boulder; 

 Holyoke, breeding); south to or somewhat beyond southern limit 

 of the Upper Austral Zone, in Virginia, western North Carolina, north- 

 western South Carolina, northern Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

 southern Illinois, Missouri, and northern Arkansas, occasionally (as 

 a straggler or migrant) to Louisiana. 



Strix variiis Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Penn., 1799, 11 (Penney Ivania). 



Strix varia Vibellot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ix, 1817, 601. — ^American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committbe, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371. — ^Henderson, Univ. 

 Colo. Stud. Zool., vi, 1909, 230 (near Boulder, Colorado). — Cooke, Auk, 

 xxvi, 1909, 412 (Bear Lodge, Crook Co., Wyoming, March, 1905). — Saunders, 

 Auk, xxviii, 1911, 37 (Sour Dough Canon, GaUatin Co., Montana, Aug. 

 5, 1909). 



Strix varia varia Ambbican OBNrrHOLOGiSTs' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 170. 



Syniium varium Pebble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, Oct., 1902, 109. — ^American 

 GENrTHOLOGiSTs' Union CoMMirTBE, Auk, XX, 1903, 340. — Currier, Auk, 

 xxi, 1904, 35 (Leach Lake, Minnesota, breeding). — Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 

 1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, winter resident). — ^Allen (F. H.), Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 59 (Londonderry, s. Vermont). — Sbton, Auk, xxv, 1908, 452 (Winnipeg, 

 Manitoba, 3 specs.). — Reagan, Auk, xxv, 1908, 464 (Rosebud Reservation, 

 South Dakota, common). 



Strix nebuhsa (not of Forster, 1772) Vielllot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 45, 

 pi. 17; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 32 (Hudson Bay; United States in 

 winter). — ^Wilson, Am. Om., iv, 1811, 61, pi. 33, fig. 2. — Bonaparte, Ann. 

 Lyc.N.Y.,ii,pt. 1,1826,38. — Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am.,ii, 

 1831, 81.— Audubon, Om. Biog., i, 1831, 242, pi. 46; v, 1839, 386.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Om. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 1832, 133; 2d ed., 1840, 143.— Gould, 

 Birds, Europe, i, 1832, pi. 46 and text.— Werner, Atlas Ois. d'Europe, i, 

 1848, pi. 49.— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, March 27, 1880, 7, 191; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 397.— Coues, Check List, 2ded., 1882, no. 

 476. — Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 150 (Houlton, Maine; 

 Fairfield, New Brunswick).— Merrlaji, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 237 

 (Point de Monts, Quebec). 



S[trix] nebulosa Bonaparte, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., ui, pt. ii, 1824, 354 (crit.) ; 

 Obs. Wilson's Am. Om., 1826, [15].— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 

 509. 



[Strix] nebulosa Boie, Isis, 1828, 315. 



JJlula nehulosa Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xui, pt. ii, 1826, 60.— Lesson, 

 Man. d'Om., i, 1824, 113; Trait6 d'Om., 1831, 108.— Cuvier, Rfegne Anim., 

 ed. 2, i, 1829, 342.— Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 7. — Schlegel, 

 Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 12 (Striges), 1863, 11. 



[ V la] nehulosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 53. 



U[lula] nebulosa Ketsbeling and Blasius, Wirb. Europ., 1840, pp. xxxi, 142. 



Ullua nebulosa Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, pt. 36 (Revue), 1873, 18. 



Symium nebulosum Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 27; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 

 132, pi. 36.— Kaup, Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 256; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 iv, 1859, 121, — ^WooDHOUSE, in Rep. Sitgreaves' Expl. Zuni and Col. R., 



