BIBDS OF NOftTH AND MifiDLE AMERICA. 745 



BDBO VIRGINIANnS PACIFICUS Cassin. 

 CALIFORNIA HOBITED OWL. 



Similar to B. v. pallescetis but darker throughout, the feet more 

 heavily mottled with dusky, the face usually with more decided tinge 

 or suffusion of tawny; slightly smaller. 



Adultmale.— Wing, 313-353 (336.5); tail, 190-218 (204.5); cuhnen 

 (from cere), 25-27 (26). » 



Adult female.— Wmg, 350-370 (360.7); tail, 213-228 (219.3); cul- 

 men (from cere), 27-28 (27.5).* 



California, except southeastern part (Colorado Desert district) and 

 coast district north of 35° ; north to south-central Oregon (Ft. Ha- 

 math), east to San Francisco Mountain, western Arizona; northern 

 Lower California (except eastern side) ? 



Bubo virginianus (not Strix virgirdana Gmelin) Gambel, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., iii, 1846, 46 (California).— Cassin, lUustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 

 1854, 177, part; in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part (Sacra- 

 mento, San Diego, and Ft. Reading,Califomia). — Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 

 1859, no. 48, part. — Hbermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., iv, no. 2, 1859, 35 

 (Ft. Tejon, and near Sacramento, California). — Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 

 418, part. 

 [Bii5o] virginianus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 43, no. 442, part.— Coubs, Key N. 



Am. Birds, 1872, 202, part. 

 Bubo magellanicus {not Bubo magellanicus Daudin) Heebmann, Joum.Ac.Nat. Sci. 



PHla., ii, 1852, 261 (Sacramento Valley). 

 Bubo virginianus subarcticus (not Bubo subarcticus Hoy) Mearns, Bull. Nutt. Om. 

 Club, iv, 1879, 195 (Ft. 'Klamath, Oregon).— Ridqway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 191, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 405a, part. — ^American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 375a, 

 part.— TowNSEND (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 204 (Red Bluff, 

 Cahfomia).— (?)Bryant (W. E.), Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 284 

 (San Pedro Martir Mts., 2,500-10,000 ft.; Magdalena I., Comandu, Ubi, and 

 Calmalli, Lower California).- (7)Anthony, Zoe, iv, 1893, 235 (San Pedro 

 Martir Mts. and wooded coast valleys, n. Lower California). 

 Bubo virginianus, d. subarcticus [Ridgway and] Bblding, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 



i, March 22, 1879, 433 (Calaveras Big Trees and Marysville, California). 

 Bubo virginianus pacifleus Cassin, Illustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 178, part; 

 ^n Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part.— Stone, Am. Nat., 

 xxxi, 1897, 236. — American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xiv 

 1897, 119; xvi, 1899, 110; Check List, 3rd ed., 1910, 175.— Geinnell (J.)' 

 Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 189G, 24 (Los Angeles Co., California); Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 35 (range); Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., v, 1908, 60. 

 B[ubo] virginianus pacifleus Stone, Auk, xiii, 1896, 156 (diagnosis). 

 [Bubo virginianus.] var. padfieus Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 418, part. 

 Bubo padfieus Guhnby, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 39. 

 [Bubo] padfieus Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 282. 

 Bubo magellanicus padfieus Thayer and Bangs, Condor, ix, 1907, 137 (Rosario, 



Lower California). 

 Asio v[irginianus] padflxus Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275. 

 Asio magellanieus padfi,cus Oberholsee, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, Jan. 22 

 1904, 183 (monogr.). 



o Six specimens. 6 Four specimens. 



