698 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult /emaZe.— Length (sMns), 235-265 (250); wing, 179-193 

 (186.3); tail, 87.5-100 (93.4); cuhnen, from cere, 15.5-17.5 (16.3)." 



Western Montana (Hellgate) westward through Idaho (Nez Perces 

 Indian Keservation) to eastern Oregon (Camp Harney; John Day 

 River; Malheur County), northeastern California (Fort Crook; Baird, 

 Shasta County?), eastern Washington (Walla Walla; North Yakima; 

 Rock Creek) and southern British Columbia east of Cascade Moun- 

 tains (Okanogan; Penticton). 



Scops ado (not Strix ado Linnaeus) Eidgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 49, part (Hellgate, Montana). 



Scops ask) kennicotti (not Scops hennicottii Elliott) Allen, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, 

 vi, 1881, 128 (Walla Walla, e. Washington).— Bendire, Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, vi, 1881, 185 (Walla Walla, e. Washington; descr. eggs).— Beewstbb, 

 Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 28-31, part (Walla Walla; Hellgate, Mon- 

 tana; descr. supposed gray phase; crit.). 



Mlegascops] ado kennicottii Kidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 262, part (Hell- 

 gate, Montana). 



{'>)Megascopsado kennicottii'! Townsend (C. H.), Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 

 203 (Baird and Ft. Crook, n. e. California). 



Otus ado kennicottii Brooks, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 61 (Okanogan, Brit. Columbia; 

 crit.). • 



Megascops asio macfarlanei Brewstbe, Auk, viii, April (separates pub. Feb. 17), 

 1891, 140 (Walla Walla, e. Washington; coll. W. Brewster).— Bendirb, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 371.— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 259 (Nez 

 Perces Indian Eeservation, Idaho; geog. range). — ^American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee, Auk, xi, 1894, 47; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 

 373ft.— Snodgrass, Auk, xxi, 1904, 228 (Walla Walla Co., Washington).— 

 Kbemode, Provincial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 46 (Brit. Columbia east of Cascade 

 range). 



Mlegascops] asio macfarland Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 592. 



Otus alsio] macfarlanei Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275.— Peck, Condor, xiii, 

 1911, 66 (Malheur Co., e. Oregon, breeding). 



Otus ado macfarland American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 372; Check List, 3d ed., 1910. 174. 



Scops macfarlanei Gueney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 38. 



[/Scops] macfarlanei Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289 (excl. syn. saturatus Brewster). 



OTUS ASIO KENNICOTXn (Elliot). 



EENNICOTT'S SCIIEECH OWI.. 



Large, hke 0. a. macfarlanei, but coloration much darker and 

 browner, the general tone of upper parts inclining, more or less 

 strongly, to tawny-brown, with lighter markings brownish buff or 

 pale cinnamon, the under parts more or less strongly suffused with 

 pale cinnamon, the legs (especially thighs) light tawny; gray phase 

 (which is relatively rare *) similar to 0. a. iendirei and 0. a. mac- 

 farlanei but very much darker (the general color of upper parts 



" Six specimens. 



b The gray phase is represented by only 1 among the 21 adults examined. 



