690 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Scops asio, var. jUmdanus Ridgwat, Bull. Essex Inst., v., Dec, 1873, 200 (Indian 

 K., Florida; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



\Scops asid\ var. Jloridanus Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 48. 



Scops asio, -vax.Jloridana Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, iii, 1874, 51. 



[Scops asio.] Subsp. /3. Scops jloridanus Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 

 118. 



[Scops aski] h.floridanus Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303 (synonymy). 



[Scops asio] d. flondanus Ridgwat," Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug. 15, 1878, 106, 

 107, 113 (monogr.). 



Scops asio Jloridanus Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, special ed., iii, 1874, colored plate facing p. 51; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 402a.— Scott, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 18 (Clearwater and moutb of Withlacoochee R., w. Florida; 

 plumages).— CouBS, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 469.— Bbewstbk, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 33 (geog. range). 



S[cops a[do] flondanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 506. 



Megascops asio flondanus Stejnbgbr, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. — Ambbican 

 Oenitholoqists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 373a.— 

 FisHEK (A. K.), Auk, V, 1888, 111 (New Orleans, Louisiana). — Scott, Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 212, 216 (Caloosahatchie R., Florida). — Bbndirb, Life Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, (i), 1892, 358.— Hasbeouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 253 (geog. range).— 

 Watnb, Auk, X, 1893, 337 (Suwanee R., Florida).— Betbb, Proc. La. Soc. 

 Nat. for 1897-'99 (1900), 100 (Louisiana).— Williams (R. W.), Auk, xxi, 1904, 

 455 (Leon Co., Florida). — Allison, Auk, xxi, 1904, 477 (Baton Rouge Parish, 

 Louisiana).— KopMAN, Auk, xxii, 1905, 142 (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana). — 

 Betee, Allison, and Kopman, Auk, xxv, 1908, 443 (Louisiana, common 

 resident). 



lI[egascops] asio flondanus Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 261. 



Megascops asiofloridana Allen, Auk, v, 1888, 324 (Mandeville, Louisiana). 



Scops flondanus Gurnet, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



[Scops] floridana Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288. 



Otus a[sio] flondanus Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. 



Otus asio flondanus Howell (A. H.), Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, April 11, 1908, 

 120 (Shreveport and Belcher, Louisiana). — Ambbican Genithologists' 

 Union Committee, Auk, xxv, July, 1908, 372; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 173. 



OTUS ASIO N.fflVIUS (Gmelin). 



SCREECH OWL. 



Similar to 0. a. asio but larger (wing averaging 160.2 in male, 166 

 in female) and coloration lighter, with under parts less densely or 

 heavily penciled, in both phases. 



Adult male. — ^Length (skins), 200-243 (216); wing, 145.5-170.5 

 (160.2) ; tail, 68-82.5 (76.4); cuhnen, from cere, 13-15.5 (14.9)."' 



Adultfemale.— Length, (skins), 206-236 (223); wing, 160-176 (166); 

 tail, 72.5-83 (79.2); cuhnen, 14.5-16 (15.3).* 



Transition and Upper Austral zones of eastern North America; 

 north to New Brunswick, Maine (Oxford County), New Hampshire 



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