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Megascops flammeola flammeola Grinnell (J.), Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 

 June, 1902, 35 (California range). 



Otm flammeola Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275.— DnxE, Auk, xxvi, 1908, 87 

 (Estes Park, Colorado, breeding). — Amebican Ornithologists' Union Com- 

 METTEE, Auk, XXV, 1908, 372.— Cart, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 181 (Glenwopd 

 Springs, Colorado).— Wellakd, Condor, xi, 1909, 199-202 (Eamsey Canon, 

 Huactuca Mts., Arizona, 7,700 ft., breeding).— Henderson, Univ. Colo. 

 Stud. Zool., vi, 1909, 230 (Colorado, many records; breeding in Estes Park).— 

 Cooke, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 412 (Ft. Lewis, Glenwood Springs, and Estes Park, 

 Colorado).— Warren (E. B.), Condor, xii, 1910, 31 (Colorado records). 



Otusflammeolus Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 84 (Tecpam, Gua- 

 temala).— Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 281 (Santa Catalina Mts., Arizona, 8,000 

 ft.). 



Otus flamm^lus fiammeolus American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd 

 ed., 1910, 174.— WiLLBTT, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 7, 1912, 52 (near San 

 Bernardino, California, Jan. 18; San Bernardino Mts., 5,000 ft., May 26; San 

 Gorgonio Peak, breeding; Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mts., 7,500 ft., breed- 

 ing; crit.).— Bebqtold, Auk, xxix, 1912, 332 (Iron Creek, Gila E., New 

 Mexico). 



[Psiloscops\ flammeola Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



Megascops flammeolus idahomsis Mebblivm, North Am. Fauna, no. 5, July 30, 1891, 

 96, pi. 1 (Ketcbum, Idaho; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Auk, ix, 1892, pi. 2.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, vui, 1892, 105. — Ben- 

 dire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 376.— Grinnbll (J.), Pacific Coast 

 Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 35 (San Bernardino Mts. and San Gorgonio Peak, Cali- 

 fornia).— GH-man, Condor, iv, 1902, 86 (Raywood Flat, San Gorgonio Mts., 

 California, breeding).— Hasbrouck, Auk, x, 1893, 251, 261 (geog. range).— 

 RiDQWAT, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 593.— Oberholser, Omis, x, 

 no. 1, 1899, 34 (monogr.). 



Megascops idahoenais Palmer (W.), Nidologist, iii. May, 1896, 103 (crit.). 



Megascops flammeola idahoensis American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 374a. 



Otus flammeola idahoensis Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275.— Grinnell(J.), Univ. 

 Calif. Pub. Zool., v, 1908, 59 (Bluff Lake and Dry Lake, San Bernardino 

 Mts., California, June, July; crit.). — ^American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 372.— Brooks, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 61 (Okanogan 

 Lake, Brit. Columbia,). 



Otusflammeolus idahoensis American Ornitholoqists' Union, Check List, 3rd 

 ed., 1910, 174. 



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



\Scops'\ idahoensis Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 288. 



Genus LOPHOSTRIX LESSON. 



Lophostrix Lesson, Compl. Buffon, vii, 1836, 261. (Type, Strix cristata Daudin.) 

 Lophostrinx (emendation) Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 105. 



Medium-sized Bubonidse (wing about 365-415 mm.) with very long 

 ear-tufts, external ear-openings relatively smaU, simple, non- 

 operculate, and symmetrical; completely naked toes, and tail much 

 more than half as long as wing. 



Bill moderately stout, with chord of culmen greater than length of 

 cere on top, the latter shghtly arched basally. Nostril nearly circular, 

 in anterior edge of cere, the latter more or less inflated or elevated 



