BIBDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA, 701 



OTUS ASIO BENDIREI (Brewster). 



CALIFORNIA SCREECH OWL. 



Similar to the gray phase oiO.a. nsemus, but under parts more tinged 

 with grayish and the darker pencilings finer and more generally dis- 

 tributed, nearly, if not quite, obliterating the immaculate white jugu- 

 lar and abdominal areas, always present in 0. a. Tisemus; ear-tuft3 aver- 

 aging decidedly shorter. No rufous fhase. 



Adult male— Jjmgth. (sHns), 212-245 (219); wing, 155-171 (161.9); 

 tail, 76-86 (81.1); cuhnen, from cere, 13.5-14.5 (14.1)." 



Adult female.— 'Length (skins), 228-235 (231); wing, 161.5-177 

 (166.2); tail, 80-90.5 (84.1); cuhnen, from cere, 13.5-16 (14.7).* 



California, except southeastern desert region (and, probably, north- 

 ern coast district) and south-central Oregon (Fort Klamath) . 



EpMaltes ckoUba (not Strix choliha Vieillot) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., vi, 1853, 4 (Sacramento, California). 



Scops asio (not Strix asio Linnseus) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 51, part (Petaluma, San Francisco, and Sacramento Valley, Cali- 

 fornia). — ^Heeemann, Rep. Pacific R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 35 (Cali- 

 fornia).— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 420.— Nelson, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H,, 

 xvii, 1875, 363 (Nevada City, California). — Ridgwat, Om. Fortieth Parallel, 

 1877, 571 (Sacramento, California).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 

 433 (Stockton, California). 



[Scops asio] a. asio Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 303, part. 



[Scops asio] a. asio Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 106, 107, part. 



Scops asio, var. mccallii (not of Cassin) Cooper, Am. Nat., iii, 1869, 479 (Colorado 

 Valley, Ariz.). 



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

 Birds, iii, 1874, 52, part (Stockton, California). — ^Henshaw, Rep. Om. Spec. 

 Wheeler's Surv., 1876, 262 (Ft. Tejon, Califomia). 



Scops asio bendirei Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, Jan., 1882, 31 (Nicasio, 

 Marin Co., Califomia; coll. W. Brewster). — Rbichenow and Schalow, 

 Journ. fiir Om., 1883, 415 (reprint of orig. descr.). 



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



Megascops asio bendirei Stejneger, Auk, ii, April, 1885, 184. — ^American Orni- 

 thologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 373c. — Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 361.— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 255 

 (geog. range). — Gkinnell (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 23 (Los Ange- 

 les Co., Califomia). — Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 87 (San Diego Co., Califomia, 

 breeding). 



M[egascops] asio bendirei Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 262. 



Otus a[sio] bendirei Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. — Carrigbr and Ray, Condor, 

 xiii, 1911, 73 (Santa Claxa Co., Califomia). 



Otus asio bendirei Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1904, 581 (Mt. Sanhedrin, 

 Califomia). — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 372; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 173.— Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, 203 

 (Arroyo de los Gatos, near Tulare Lake, Califomia). 



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



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



" Eight specimens. t> Six specimens. 



