BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 645 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 445-500 (478); wing, 330-360 

 (347.1); tail, 215-245 (232.3); culmen, from cere, 25-28 (24.1)." 



Humid division of T^ower Aiistral Zone of eastern United States; 

 north to South Carolina on the Atlantic coast, to Arkansas (Wibnot ; 

 Delight; Van Buren; Stuttgart) and northeastern Texas (Cook 

 Oounty) in the interior;'' west to eastern Texas (Shelby, Hardin, 

 Itlontgomery, Harris, Galveston, and Fort Bend counties). 



ZTlula nebulosa (not Strix nebulosa Forster) Wailes, Eep. Geol. Miss., 1854, 320 

 (Mississippi). 



(?)[Z7ZuZa] nebulosa Heinb and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 252 

 (Georgia; South Carolina). 



Syrnium nebulosum Taylor, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida). — ^Maynakd, Birds E. N. 

 Am., 1881, 256, part (Florida specimens). — Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 ii, 1871, 340 (e. Florida).— Ootjes, Check List, 1873, no. 323, part.— Nbhr- 

 LiNG, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 172 (Montgomery, Galveston, and 

 Fort Bend counties, Texas). 



[Syrnium] nebulosum Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 204, part. 



Strix nebulosa alleni Ridgway, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., iii, sig. 1, March 27, 1880, 8 

 (Clearwater, s. w. Florida; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 397a. — Reichenow and Schalow, Joum. fiir Om., 1881, 79 (reprint 

 of original descr.). — Scott, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vi, 1881, 18 (Tanasofenskee 

 Lake, Florida).— Cotjbs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 477. 



S[trix] n[ebulosa] alleni Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 510. 



Syrnium nebulosum alleni RroowAT, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 

 355; Auk, viii, 1891, 240 (near Charleston, South Carolina). — ^American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 368a. — 

 Ragsdale, Auk, iii, 1886, 281 (Cook Co., n. e. Texas).— Chapman, Auk, v, 

 1888, 271 (Gainesville, Florida).— Allen, Auk, v, 1888, 324 (Mandeville, 

 Louisiana). — ^Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 339, part.^— Scott, 

 Auk, vi, 1899, 248 (Tarpon Springs, Sanibel I., and Marco, w. Florida). — 

 Coombs, Auk, ix, 1892, 205 (Bayou Teche, Louisiana). — Wayne, Auk, xii, 

 1895, 364 (Aucilla R., n. w. Florida).— Beyer, Proc. La. Soc. Nat. for 1897-'99 

 (1900), 100 (Louisiana). — Beyer, Allison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 

 443 (Louisiana). 



S[ymium] nebulosum alleni Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 259. 



Syrnium varium alleni Preble, North Am. Fauna, no. 22, Oct., 1902, 109. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xx, 1903, 340. — 

 Williams (R. W.), Auk, xxi, 1904, 455 (Leon Co., Florida). — Kopman, Auk, 

 xxii, 1905, 141 (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana).— Howell (A. H.), Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., xxi, 1908, 120 (Lecompte and Eldorado, n. Louisiana); Bull. 38, 

 U. S. Biol. Surv., 1911, 42 (Wihnot, Delight, Van Buren, Stuttgart, etc., 

 Arkansas). 



Strix varia aZZem American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed. , 1910, 170. 



Stryx varia alleni Fisher (W. C), Wilson Bull., xxii, 1910, 45 (Lake Wimlico, 

 n. w. Florida). 



Syrnium alleni Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 40. 



[Syrnium] alleni Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 



Syrnium varium (not Strix varms Barton) Allison, Auk, xxi, 1904, 477 (West 

 Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana). — Stockard, Auk, xxi, 1905, 153 (Missis- 

 sippi; nesting habits, etc.). 



o Seven specimens. 



5 Owing to lack of material from intermediate territory, it is not possible at present 

 to state with greater precision the northern limits to the range of this form. 



