652 BULLETIN 50, TTNITEB STATES , NATIOKAL MUSEUM. 



New Mexico (San Miguel County, 9,500 feet; upper Pecos River) 

 to western Texas (Guadalupe Mountains); north to Colorado 

 (Denver; Fort Lewis). 



Symium ocddentale (not of Xantus, 1859) Coubs, Ibis, 1865, 162 (Ft. Whipple, 

 Arizona).— RiDGWAY, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 239 (Tucson, Arizona); in Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 29, 38, part (Tucson).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), 

 no. 369.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 115 (Santa Clara Valley, 

 Arizona, breeding).— Bbndiee, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 343, part 

 (Colorado; New Mexico; Arizona).— Cooke, Birds Col., 1897, 77 (several 

 Colorado records).— Mitchell, Auk, xv, 1898, 308 (San Miguel Co., New 

 Mexico, 9,500 ft.).— Obbrholser, Auk, xix, 1902, 300 (Guadalupe Mts., 

 w. Texas).- Swarth, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 8 (Huachuca Mts., 

 Arizona, above 6,500 ft.). 



S\ymium] ocddentale Bidgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 259, part. 



[Symium] occMentale Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293, part. 



Symium occidentalis Smith (H. G., jr.). Auk, iii, 1886, 284 (Denver, Colorado, 

 Jan. or Feb., 1882). 



Strix occidentalis Bidgwat, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 8, 191, part; Nom. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 398, part.— Coubs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 478, 

 part.— Hbnshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 79 (upper Pecos B., New Mexico).— Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 371, part. — Cooke, 

 Auk, xxvi, 1909, 412 (Ft. Lewis, Colorado).— Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 281 

 (Santa CatalinaMts., Arizona, breeding in pine belt). 



8[trix] ocddentalis Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 510, part.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 257, part. 



Strix occidentalis huachucx Swarth, Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, no. 1, May 26, 

 1910, 3 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona; coll. G. F. Morcom). 



STRIX OCCIDENTALIS LUCIDA (Nelson). 

 MEXICAN SPOTTED OWL. 



Similar to S. o. occidentalis, but under parts with much less of buff 

 and correspondingly more of white; legs and feet white or buffy 

 white, more or less spotted with brown. 



Adult feTnale.— Length (skins), 435-457 (446); wing, 320-328 (324); 

 tail, 216-226 (221); culmen, from cere, 22-23.5 (22.7).» 



Mountains of central Mexico, in States of Guanajuato and Michoa- 

 c&n (Mount Tancltaro). 



Symium ocddentale (not of Xantus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 260 

 excl. syn. part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 

 1897, 10, excl. syn. (Mexico, Guanajuato). 

 [Symium] ocddentale Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293, part. , 



Symium ocddentale luddum Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, Nov. 30, 1903, 

 152 (Mt. Tancitaro, Michoacan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Genus ASIO Brisson. 



Asio Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 477. (Type, by tautonymy, [Asia] ado BriB8on= 



Strix otus Linnseus.) 

 Otus (not of Pennant, 1769) Cuvier, Lefons Anat. Comp., 1800, tab. ii. (Type, 



by tautonymy, Strix otua Linnseus.) 



"■ Two specimens. (No males examined.) 



