742 BTTLLBTIW 50, UNITED STATES NATIOlirAL MUSEUM. 



Bubo virginianus virginianus Goode, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 20, 1883, 309. — 



American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3d ed., 1910, 175. — ^Honb- 



wiLL, Aui, xxviii, 1911, 233 (Crooked Lake, Minnesota).— Sherman, Auk, 



xxix, 1912, 240 (diumal activities). 

 Otus virginianus Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1826, 57. 

 Ulula virginiana Jameson, ed. Wilson's Cm., i, 1831, 100. 

 [Asio] virginiana Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 217. 

 Asio virginianus Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. 

 Asia magellanicus virginianus Oberholsbr, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, no. 



1352, Jan. 22, 1904, 188 (monogr.). 

 Bubo ludovicianus Daudin, Trait6 d'Om. , ii, 1800, 210 (Grand due de la Louisiane). 

 Bubo pinicola Vieiliot, Ois. Am. Sept. , i, 1807, 51, pi. 19 (no exact locality given, 



but cites Le Grand Due de Virginie Brisson; Strix virginiana Gmelin; 



Virginian Eared Owl Latham; type coll. Dufresne). 

 (?) Sim crossiTOSfm Vibillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 44 (no locality 



mentioned; coll. Mus. Paris). 

 Oltus] crassirostris Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 

 Asio crassirostris Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 208. 

 Stria; macrorhyncha Temminck, PI. Col., ii, livr. 77, June, 1821, pi. 62 and text 



(North America). 

 Otus TtMcrwhynchus Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1826, 59. — Cutiek, 



Rfegne Anim., ed. 2, i, 1829, 341.— Lesson, Trait6 d'Om., 1831, 109. 

 Asio macrorhyncha Lesson, Man. d'Om., i, 1828, 117. 

 Bubo virginianus atlanticus Cassin, lUustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 178; 



in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49. 



BUBO VIRGmUNUS PALLESCENS Stone. 



PALLID EOBITES OWL. 



Similar to B. v. occidentalis, but smaller; colors averaging lighter. 



Adult male.— Wiag, 330-360 (341); tail, 195-225 (215.9); culmen 

 (from cere), 24-29.5 (27.3). » 



Adultfemale.— Wing, 355-37 5 (.362.8); tail, 200-235 (222); culmen 

 (from cere), 26-31 (29).« 



Southwestern United States, from central Texas to Arizona, 

 southeastern Galifornia (Colorado Desert), and northwestern Lower 

 California, south into northern Mexico, ia States of Sonora (Her- 

 mosUla),Chihudhua (San Diego), Nuevo Le6n (Rodriguez), Coahuila 

 (Sabinas), and Durango (CiudS,d Durango). 



Bubo magellanicus (not Bubo magellanicus Daudin) Kennbrlt, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., iv, pt. vi, 1856, 11 ("Camp 98," Arizona), 12 (Bill Williams R., 

 Arizona). 



Bubo virginianus (not Strix virginiana Gmelia) Kennerly, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., x, no. 3, 1859, 20 (Little Coloiado R. and "Camp 98," Arizona).— 

 Cassin, lUustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 177, part; in Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part (Colorado R., California; Little Colorado R., 

 etc., Arizona; New Mexico; Devils R., Texas; Monterey, Nuevo Leon). — 

 Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 48, part.— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 330 (s. 

 Texas).— CouBS, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 49 (Ft. Whipple, Arizona," 



o Nine specimens. 



