BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 741 



Eastern United States and southern Canada; north to Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario, west to Wisconsin, southeast- 

 ern Minnesota, Iowa, southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, 

 eastern Kansas, Indian Territory, and eastern Texas, south to the 

 Gulf coast, including Florida. Accidental in Ireland." 



[Strix] virginiana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 287 (Virginia; based on Le 

 Grand Due de Virginie Brisson, Om., i, 484; Virginian Homed Owl Edwards, 

 Nat. Hist, Birds, ii, pi. 60; yiTginianEagleOwl'Ls.\hz,va.,Byn.,i,y\,.X, 119). — 

 Latham, Index Om., i, 1790, 52. 



Strix virginiana Daudin, Traits d'Om., ii, 1800, 210, pi. 13. — Shaw, Gen. Zool., 

 vii, pt. i, 1809, 215, pi. 30.— Wilson, Am. Om., vi, 1812, 52, pi. 50, fig. 1.— 

 ViEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 46. — Bonapahtb, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 37; 1828, 435 (crit.); Synopsis, 1828, 37; Isis, 1832, 

 1139.— Audubon, Om. Biog., i, 1831, 313, pi. 61; v, 1839, 393.— Nuttall, 

 Man. Om. U. S. and Can., LandBirds, 1832, 124; 2ded., 1840, 129.— Pbabody, 

 Rep. Om. Mass., 1839, 87.— Thompson, Nat. Hist. Vermont, 1853, 65. 



S\tTix\ virginiana Bonapaete, Joum. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, pt. ii, 1824, 355; 

 Obs. Wilson's Am. Om., 1826, [16]. 



Strix (Bubo) virginiana Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 82. 



Bubo virginianus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 6. — ^Audubon, Syn- 

 opsis, 1839, 29; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 143, pi. 39.— Gieaud, Birds Long 

 Is., 1844, 27.— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., ii, 1844, 24, pi. 10, fig. 22.— Kaup, 

 Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 116 (monogr.); Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 

 1859, 241 (monogr.). — Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 213 (excl. syn. 

 part). — Brewer, N. Am. Oology, i, 1857, 64. — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. B. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part.— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 48, part. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 11 (Oti), 1863, 10; no. 36 (Revue), 

 1873, 4. — Cooper, Om. CaUf., 1870, 418, part (in synonymy). — ^Allen, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 337 (e. Florida; excl. syn. part). — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 317,; 2d ed., 1882, no. 462.— Sharpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 ii, 1875, 19, part (Delaware). — Sennett, Bull! U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. 

 Terr., v, 1879, 417 (Lomita Ranch, Texas; crit.).— Ridgwat, Proc. TT. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 191; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 405; Om. Illinois, 

 i, 1889, 418. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 

 2d ed., 1895), no. 375.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 212 (Caloosahatchie R., Florida, 

 breeding).— Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 376, pi. 12, fig. 12 

 (egg).— Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 74 (Toronto, Ontario, winter resident). 



B[t46o] virginianus MAxrMrLLA.N, Joum. fur Om. , 1858, 23 (upper Missouri River). — 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 503.— Ridqway, Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 263. 



[Bubol virginianus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 43, no. 442, part. — Coues, Key N. 

 Am. Birds, 1872, 202, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 282. 



[Bubo} virginiana Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 48. 



Bubo virginiana Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 281 (vicinity of New 

 York City). 



Bubo virginianus, var. virginianus Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 62, part. 



[Bubo virginianus] var. virginianus Ridgway, Ann. Lye. N. Y., x, 1874, 379 

 (Illinois). 



[Buio virginianus] a. virginianus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 300, excl. syn. 

 part. 



o Belle Lake, County Waterford, Jan. 27, 1851; see Zoologist, 1881, 308. 



