BIRDS OP NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 699 



approaching fuscous) and with, lighter markings light brownish buflfy 

 instead of white, and the under parts much more heavily penciled 

 and spotted. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 220-252 (231); wing, 170.5-190.5 

 (176.5); tail, 82-98.5 (89); cukaen, from cere, 14.5-16.5 (15.1)." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 225-253 (241); wing, 170.5-1-87.5 

 (179.2); tan, 85.5-93 (89.2); culmen, from cere, 14.5-16.5 (15.5).* 



Western Washington (Mount Vernon; Lake Cushman; Fort Van- 

 couver; Cape Disappointment; Bellingham Bay; Seattle; Tacoma) 

 and northward, near coast, through British Columbia (Victoria, 

 Errington, Comox, and Cadboro Bay, Vancouver Island; Savich 

 Island; New Westminster; ChiUiwack; Sumas) to southeastern 

 Alaska (Sitka). 



(?) Strix asio (not of Linnseus) Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



viii, 1839, 151. 

 Sco'ps asio Cooper and Suckley, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, pt. 2, 1860, 155 



(Ft. Vancouver, Washington). — Lord, Nat. in Vancouver Is., ii, 1866, 292. — 



Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver I.). 

 (?) Strix naevia (not of Gmelin) Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



viii, 1839, 151. 

 Scops kennicottii Elliot, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 69 (Sitka, Alaska; coU. 



U. S. Nat. Mua.); lUustr. New and Unfig. Birds N. Am., 1869, p. xxvii, 



pi. 11. 

 Scops hennicotti Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, pt. ii, 1869, 273 



(Sitka). — Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, pt. ii, 1869, 311, pi. 27. — Cooper, 



Orn. Calif., 1870, 423.— Finsch, Abh. Nat. Bremen, iii, 1872, 28 (Sitka). 

 S[cops] hennicotti Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. , 1868, 57. 

 [Scops] hennicotti Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 492. — Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 



1899, 289. 

 [Scops asio] var. hennicottii Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 203. 

 /Scops asio . . . var. hennicottii Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 318a. 

 /Scops asio, var. hennicottii Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 1873, 201, in text. 

 Scops asio, var. hennicotti Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 53. 

 [/Scops asio] b. hennicottii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303. 

 [Scops asio] f. hennicottii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Aug., 15, 1878, 106, 



lll(monogr.; Sitka; Washington; "Idaho"). 

 Scops asio hennicottii Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 191. 

 /Scops asio hennicotti Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds,- 1881, no. 402d — Brewster, 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 28-33, part (crit.; Sitka).— Coues, Check 



List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 466.— Bowles, Condor, viii, 1906, 143 [144] (n. w. 



Washington; habits; descr. eggs). 

 S[cops] a[sio] hennicotti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 505. 

 [Scops asio.] Subsp. a. Scops hennicotti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 117 



(Vancouver I. ; "west side of Rocky Mts. ' '). 

 Megascops asio hennicotti Stejneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. 

 Megascops asio hennicottii American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 



(and 2d ed., 1895), no. S7Zd, part. — Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. CoU. Alaska, 



1887, 151 (Sitka southward).- Bendire, Lite Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 



o Nine specimens. 6 Eight specimens. 



