BIBDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 779 



[8umia] ulula (not Strix ulula Linnseus) Bonapakte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 36, 

 part.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 39, no. 376, part. 



Sumia ulula Cabot, Naumannia, 1852, heft iii, 66 (Lake Superior). — Cassin, 

 lUustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 191 (excl. syn. part); inBaird, Rep. 

 Pacific B. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 64 (excl. syn. part).— Bke wee, N. Am. Oology, 

 i, 1857, 80; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1878, 306 (Houlton, Maine, fall of 

 1877).— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 62.— Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep., 

 1860, no. 29 (Ohio in winter).— Boaedman, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 

 123 (Calais, Maine, breeding). — ^Vehbill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 143 

 (Oxford Co., Maine, Nov.-March). — ^Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolwich, 

 iv, pt. iii, 1864, 111 (Brit. Columbia). — ^McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inflt., v, 

 1866, 281 (Hamilton, Ontario).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 281 

 (vicinity of New York City).— Turnbull, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 

 41 (New Jersey). — Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sd., i, 1869, 

 274, part (Nulato and Sitka, Alaska; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Coopbe, 

 Om. Calif., 1870, 448 (no California record). — Mehriam, Sixth An. Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 696 (Madison R., Montana, Aug. 11).— (?)Ridgwat, 

 Bull. Nutt. Om. Club., iii, 1878, 38 (St. Michaels, Alaska).— (?)American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 377.— 

 (?)Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 163 (s. e. base of Shaman Mt. and 

 St. Michaels, Alaska; not pi. 6, which is truejS. ulula!). — (?)Nelson, Rep. 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 154 (St. Michaels; crit.).— (?)Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 392, part. 



(J)Swniia ulula ulula American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 

 1910, 176. 



{1)Swmiafunerea ulula Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 192; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 407a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 481.— Nelson, Cruise of "Corwin" in 1881 (1883), 77 (St. Michaels, Alaska). 



Strix nisoria (not of Meyer) Schalow, Joum. fur Om., 1891, 249 (Alaska). 



Genus GLAUCIDIUM Boie. 



Olauddium Boie, Isis, xix, 1826, 970. (Type, by monotypy, Strix passerina 



Linnseus.) 

 NycHpetes Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 218. (Type, Strix perlata Vieillot.) 

 Tssnioptynx Kaup, Isis, 1848, 768. (Type, Noctua irorfici Burton.) 

 Tseniaglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769. (Type, Strix radiata Tickell.) 

 Microglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769. (Type, as fixed by Gray, 1855, Strix perlata 



VieUlot.) 

 Microptynx Kaup, Isis, 1848,764; Jardine's Contr. Om., 1852, 106. (Type, Strix 



passerina Limueus.) 

 (?) Smithiglaux Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. ZooL, 1854, vi, (2), 544. (Type, 



Athene capends Smith.) 

 Phalsenopsis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. ZooL, vi (2), 1854, 544. (Type, Strix 



nana King.) 



Very small Bubonidse (wing about 84-117 mm.) with tlie small 

 circular nostril opening near center of the inflated cere, head without 

 ear-tufts, tarsi (sometimes toes also) densely feathered, and tail about 

 two-thirds to three-fourths as long as wing, with twelve rectrices. 



Bill stout; cere on top less than half as long as chord of cuhnen, 

 very broad. Nostril small, circular, opening near center of the 

 inflated (semibulbous) cere. External ear-openings small, symmet- 



