BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



689 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 175-210 (198); wing, 139-151.5 

 (144.7); tail, 62.5-73.5 (66.7); culmen, from core, 13-15 (13.7)." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 185-225 (206); wing, 144-162.5 

 (151.3); tail, 67-76.5 (71.3); culmen, from cere, 13.5-15.5 (14.3).« 



Lower Austral Zone of eastern United States, from Florida and Gulf 

 coast northward to South Carolina (probably to southeastern Virginia 

 near coast), western Tennessee (Daniels), southern Illinois (Mount 

 Carmel, Wabash County; Sugar Creek Prau'ie and Olney, Richland 

 County; Tunnel HUl, Johnson County), southeastern Kansas (Neosho 

 Falls; Cedar Valley), Oklahoma (Ponca Agency), Indian Territory 

 (Red Fork), and Arkansas (Delight; Van Buren), probably also to 

 southeastern Missouri, western Kentucky, and extreme southwestern 

 Indiana; probably westward to northeastern Texas, near Gulf coast. 



[Striz asio] LinNjBus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 92 (Soutli Carolina; based on 

 Noctua aurita minor, Little Owl, Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 7, pi. 7; 

 Asia scops carolinenm Briason, Orn., i, 497); ed. 12, i, 1766, 132. — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 287.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 54. 



Bubo asio Wailbs, Rep. Geol. Miss., 1854, 320 (Mississippi). 



B[ubo] asio Maximilian, Joum. fiir Orn., 1858, 23 (New Harmony, Indiana; crit.). 



Scops asio Taylok, Ibis, 1862, 128 (Florida). — ^Axlen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 ii, 1871, 338 (e. Florida).— Hay, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 93 (Big 

 Black B., MksJBsippi).— Beckham, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 164 

 (Bayou Sara, Louisiana). 



Megascops asio Stockaed, Auk, xxii, 1905, 154 (Mississippi; nesting habits, etc.). 



(?) Strixnsevia (not of Gmelin?) Gosse, Alabama, 1859, 275 (Alabama). 



Scops mccallii (not of Caasin, 1854) Cassin, in Baird, Hep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 52, part (Indian R. Florida). 



" Twelve specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Culmen, 

 from 



MALES. 



Nine adult males from Florida 



One adult male from Louisiana 



Two adult males from southern Illinois 



Four adult males from central Illinois iO.a. nseviiis) 



One adult male from nortliKjentral Kentucky (O. a. mevins) 



Ten adult males from Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia (0. a.Tusvius) 



One adult male from Long Island, New York (O.o.naswus) 



One adult male from Rhode Island (0. a. nsevius) 



One adult male from New Hampshire (0. o. metiius) 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Florida 



Two adult females from Louisiana 



Four adult females from central Illinois (0. a. nzvius) 



One adult female from north<entral Kentucky (O. o. Tisevius) 



Eleven adult females from Maryland and District of Columbia (O. a. nsevius). . . 



One adult female from Carlisle, Pennsylvania (0. o. Toemus) 



One adult female from East Saginaw, Michigan (0. a. nacijis) 



143.5 



151.5 



146.7 



156.6 



163 



160 



157 



170 



170 



150 



165 



162.1 



162.5 



166.5 



169 



176 



65.6 



73.5 



68.7 



75.5 



77.5 



75.4 



77 



80 



82.5 



70.4 

 75.7 

 78.8 

 74.5 

 79.5 

 80.5 

 80 



14 



14 



12.5 



14 



15 



15.3 



14.5 



15.5 



15.5 



14.2 



14.5 



15 



15 



15.6 



15.5 



14.5 



3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 44 



