46 BtTLLETlN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



STRIX VARIA ALBOGILVA Bangs. 

 TEXAS BAHBED OWL. 



With naked toes, like S. v. aUeni, but coloration much paler, the 

 pper parts much more conspicuously and generally barred (the bars 

 early pure white), tail-bands broader, whiter, and more sharply 

 efined, stripes on under parts narrower, lighter brown, legs much 

 aler buffy or buffy white and much less distinctly mottled (some- 

 mes immaculate), and buff of under parts decidedly paler; bill 

 nd feet much larger. 



Adult TO«Ze.— Length (skin), 515; wing, 355; tail, 230; culmen, 

 :om cere, 27.5.'' 



AduUfemdle.—Length. (skins), 445-540 (504); wing, 330-353 (341); 

 ail, 210-254 (230.5); culmen, from cere, 25-28 (26.6).'' 



South-central Texas (mesquite area), in Nueces, Brazoria, Lee, 

 lefugio, Bexar, Concho(?), and Tom Green(?) counties. 



Syrnium nebulosum (not Strix nebulosa Forster) Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 330 (g. 

 Texas).— (?)Li,OTD, Auk, iv, 1887, 189 (Tom Green and Concho counties, w. 

 centr. Texas).— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 662 (Corpus 

 Christi and San Antonio, Texas).— Attwater, Auk, ix, 1892, 234 (San Anto- 

 nio, Texas).— Ehoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 106 (Corpus Christi, 

 Texas). 



Syrnium nebulosum alleni (not of Eidgway) Bbndire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 (i), 1892, 339, part (s. e. and centr. Texas). 



Syrnium nebulosum helveolum (not Strix helvola Lichtenstein, 1842) Bangs, Proc. 

 New Engl. Zool. Club, i, March 31, 1899, 31 (Corpus Christi, Texas; coll. E. A. 

 and O. Bangs).— Carroll, Auk, xvii, 1900, 343 (Refugio Co., Texas, resi- 

 dent). — American ORNrrHOLOGisTs' Union Committbe, Auk, xviii, 1901, 

 299. 



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

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



{Syrnium^ helveolum Sharpb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 



Slrix varia albogilva Bangs, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 316, in text (new name for 

 Syrnium nebulosum helveolum Bangs, preoccupied). — ^American Orni- 

 thologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371; Check List, 3rd ed., 

 1910, 170. 



STRIX VARIA SARTORn (Ridgway). 

 UEXICAIT BARRED OWL. 



Agreeing with 8. v. varia in feathered toes; with S. v. albogilva in 

 arge biU and feet, more numerous and whiter bars on upper parts, and 

 rhitish legs and feet; but coloration much darker than in any other 

 orm, the brown of upper parts more sooty, stripes on posterior under 

 )arts broader and much darker (blackish brown to black), and 

 lusky bars on face (auricular and postocular regions) averaging less 

 listinct (sometimes obsolete). 



Adult male.—Length (skins), 466-475 (471); wing, 342-380 (359.2); 

 ail, 220-238 (228.5); cuhnen, from cere, 25-28 (26.3).* 



o One specimen. 5 Four specimens. 



