BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMBBICA, 693 



OTUS ASIO MCCALLn (Cassin). 

 TEXAS SCREECH OWL. 



Larger than 0. a. asio, but smaller than 0. a. nsevius and paler 

 than either; gray phase much more coarsely mottled above than in 

 any other form of the species, the lighter spots and mottlings 

 decidedly more conspicuous; rufous phase paler than that of 0. a. 

 asio, with rufous predominating on under parts. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 200-226 (214); wing, 147-163.5 

 (155.2); tail, 72-81 (75.8); culmen, from cere, 13-14.5 (13.8)." 



Adultfemale.— Length, (skms), 208-240 (224); wing, 149-163 (157); 

 tail, 74-81 (78.2); culmen, from cere, 13.5-14 (13-7).* 



Southern Texas, north to Bandera, Bexar, Comal, and Refugio 

 counties, west to Kinney Coimty (Fort Clark) ; south into TamauUpas 

 (Ciudid Victoria; Rio Martinez; Santa Leonor) and Nuevo Le6n 

 (Topo Chico, Monterey; Montemorelos; Rio Salada; Rio San Juan). 



Scops mcadlii Cassin, Illustr. Birds CaUf., Texas, etc., July, 1854, 180 (Rio 

 Grande, Texas; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. c); in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv. 

 ix, 1858, 52.— Baird, Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 4, 

 pi. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 50; Birds North Am., 1860, 50, atlas, pi. 39. 



8[cops\ mcmllii Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 421, in text (crit.). 



Megascops cmo mccallii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 

 no. 3736, part. — ^Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 254, part (geog. range). — 

 Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1892, 106 (near Corpus Christi, Texas). — 

 Attwatbr, Auk, ix, 1892, 234 (San Antonio, Texas, common resident). — 

 Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 360. 



M[egascops] ado mccallii Ridqwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 261, part. 



Otus asio mccallii American Ornithoi.ogists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 

 July, 1908, 372. 



Otus alsioj mccalli Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. 



Otus asio mccalli American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 

 173. — Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 77 (Rio Martinez and Santa Leonor, 

 Tamauhpas). 



Megascops asio WMalli American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xvi, 

 1899, 109.— Carroll, Auk, xxii, 1900, 343 (Refugio Co., Texas). 



[Scopsi m'callii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 495. 



Scops mMxalli Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 133 (Texas; n. Mexico).— 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 330 (San Antonio and Bandera Co., Texas). — Salvin 

 and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 18 (Rio Salada, Topo Chico, 

 and Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon). 



[Scops'] maccalli Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



"■ Ten specimens. 



* Six specimens. 



« Of the two specimens mentioned by Cassin in his original description, that in the 

 collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, appears to have been 

 lost, Mr. Stone having been unable to find it. The other is still in the National Museum 

 collection and bears the following upon the original label: "Screech Owl. Rio 

 Bravo del Norte, Sept. 9*^ '853. Schott." It is one of the U. S. and Mexican Bound- 

 ary Survey specimens, and is number 9171 of the U. S. National Museum collection. 



