BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 809 



Desert areas of soutlieastern California (San Bernardino County; 

 Kern County?; Whetstone MoTintains; Colorado Kiver), Arizona 

 (Fort Mojave; Fort Lowell; Tucs6n; RUlito Creek, near Tucs6n; 

 Fuller's Ranch; Big Sandy Creek; Benson; Dragoon Moimtains; 

 Santa Cruz River, Pima County; Piaal County), southwestern New 

 Mexico (Apache, Grant County), and Sonora (Cerro Blanco). 



Athene whitneyi Coopbe, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ii, 1861, 118 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona; 

 coll. Calif. Geol. Survey).— Coubs, Ibis, 1866, 260, in text. 



[Athene] whitneyi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 43, no. 435. 



Mierathene whitneyi Coubs, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 51 (Ft. Mojave, 

 Arizona); Check List, 1873, no. 331; Birds Northwest, 1874, 320.— Elliot, 

 lUustf . New and Unfig. Am. Birds, i, 1868, pi. 29 and text. — Cooper, Om. 

 Calif., 1870, 442 (Ft. Mojave, Arizona). — Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 87, part; Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 239 

 (Rillito Creek, near Tucson, Arizona); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 192; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 411.— Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 

 224.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 27 (Camp Lowell, Ari- 

 zona; descr. young, nest, and eggs, etc.). — ^American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 381, part.— Scott, Auk, iii, 1886, 424 (Phna 

 and Pinal counties, Arizona). 



[Micrathene] whitneyi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 207, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



Mlicrathene] whitneyi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 576, part. — Ridg- 

 way, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 267, part. 



Micropallas whitnq/i American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, [March] 1889, 21, part; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2d 

 ed., 1895, no. 381, part; 3d ed., 1910, 178, part.— Anthony, Auk, ix, 1892, 

 362 (Apache, s. w. New Mexico). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 

 1892, 411, pi. 12, fig. 13 (egg).— Ridgway, Condor, iv, 1902, 18 (KemCo., 

 California, May 10, 1882). — Loomis, Auk, xix, 1902, 80 (San Bernardino Co., 

 California, April 20, 1898).— Brown (H.), Auk, xx, 1903, 43, 44 (Colorado 

 Valley, Arizona).— Smith (A. P.), Condor, ix, 1907, 197 (Whetstone- Mts., 

 California, up to 5,000 ft.).— Visher, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 281 (Pima Co., 

 Arizona). 



M[icropallas] whitneyi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 267, part. 



[Micropallas] whitneyi Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 299, part. 



MICROPALLAS WHITNEYI SANFORDI Ridgway." 



SASTOSD'S ELF OWL. 



Similar to M. w. wMtneyi, but much grayer above and (in the gray 

 phase, at least) with much less of cinnamon-buff on face and little if 

 any rusty brown or cinnamon on under parts; gray phase with ground 

 color of upper parts between mouse gray and hair brown, without 

 distinct, if any, darker vermiculations; brown phase similar in color- 

 ation to the grayer phase of M. w. whitneyi but slightly darker; wing 

 averaging decidedly shorter, tail averaging longer. 



a New subspecies. (Type, no. 234166, adult male, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., Mira- 

 flores, Lower California, June 24, 1912; W. W. Brown, jr. Presented by Dr. L. C. 

 Sanford.) 



