BIBDS OP NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 747 



Adult maZe.— Wing, 335; tail, 215." 



Adult female.— Wing, 345-360 (352.5); tail, 203-230 (216.5); 

 culmen (from cere), 27.5-28.5 (28).'' 



Coast of California, from about latitude 35° north to the San 

 Francisco Bay district (San Luis Obispo; Bodega; Redwood City; 

 Nicfcio). 



Bubo virginianus (not /Stria; virginiana Gmelin) ViCMJES, Zool. Voy. "Blossom," 

 1839, 15 (San Francisco). — Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 

 1858, 49, part (Bodega, California).— Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 

 48, part.— Cooper, Om. Calif., 1870, 418, part. 



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

 Am. Birds, 1872, 202, part. 



[Bubo virginianvs.l Var. padflais (not Bubo virginianus padficus Casain) Cooper, 

 Om. Calif., 1870, 418, part.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 202, in text, 

 part. 



Bubo virginianus . . . var. padjiats Cotjes, Check List, 1873, no. 317 &, part. 



[Suio virginianus] b. padfieus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 301, part (in syn- 

 onymy). 



Bubo virginianus, var. pacifie^ts Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 61, 65, part. 



Bubo virginianus padflcnis Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 464, part. 



B[u6o] v\irginianus'\ padficus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 504, part. 



B[tt5o] virginianus saturatus Ridgway, Om. Fortieth Parallel, 1877, 672, footnote, 

 part; Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 263, part. 



Bubo virginianus saturatus Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 191, part; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 405 c, part. — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 375c, part. 



Asw v\irginianus'] saturatus Stone, Auk, xx, July, 1903, 275, part. 



Asio Tnagellameus icelus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, Jan. 22, 

 1904, 185 (San Luis Obispo, CaUfomia; coll. IT. S. Nat. Mua.). 



BUBO VIRGINUWUS LAGOPHONUS (Oberholser). 



HOETHWESTEaN HOKNED OWL. 



Similar to B. v. icelus but decidedly larger, feet darker, and the 

 ochraceous or tawny parts intensified in color. 



.4(Z%ZimaZe.— Wing, 345-370 (355.8); tail, 210-235 (223.5); culmen 

 (from cere), 25-30 (27.4).<' 



Adult female.— Wing, 350-400 (375.8) ; tail, 215-252 (238.5) ; cul- 

 men (from cere), 26-31 (29.2).<* 



Idaho (Sawtooth Lake; Fort Sherman), eastern Washington (WaUa 

 Walla; Cascade Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Toledo), and north- 

 eastern Oregon (Douglas County; Des Chutes River; Pengra), and 

 northward through eastern and central British Columbia (Vernon; 

 Ashcroft; Okanogan) to Cook Inlet (Hope; Knik; Sheep Creek; 

 Caribou Camp), and interior of Alaska (Nulato; Fort Yukon; 

 Kowak River); occasional winter visitant in Colorado (Jefferson 

 Co., Oct.). 



Bubo virginianus (not Strix virginiana Gmelin) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 49, part (Okanogan, e. Oregon).- Batrd, Cat. N. Am. 



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