BIRDS OP NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 817 



Unforested portions of western United States and southwestern 

 Canada, from Pacific coast (including Santa Barbara, Los Coronados, 

 Guadalupe, and other islands) to western Minnesota (Swift County), 

 South Dakota (Lyman County; Rosebud Reservation), Nebraska 

 (Neligh, Antelope County), middle Kansas (Fort Hays; Sedgwick 

 County), Texas, and southeastern Louisiana (prairies of East Feliciana 

 and Plaquemine Counties ") ; north to BeUingham Bay, Washington 

 (casual), southern British Columbia (Kamloops and Ashcroft prior 

 to 1890; Revels Lake; ChiUiwack; Vernon), southwestern Sas- 

 katchewan (breeding), and western Manitoba (40 miles northeast of 

 Portage la Prairie; Morden; along Pipestone River on Ridiag Moun- 

 taia); southward through Lower California to Cape San Lucas (in- 

 cluding Cerros, Santa Magdalena, Santa Margarita, and other 

 islands), and through Mexico, in States of Sonora (San Pedro; 

 Bacuach6), Chihufihua (Chihudhua; Cametes), Tamaulipas (Matamo- 

 ros; Alta Mira), Coahuila (head of Las Vacas Creek), San Luis PotosI 

 (Hacienda Angostura), Guanajuato, Zacatecas, JaHsco (La Barca; 

 Guadalajara; Santa Ana near Zapotl&n), Sinaloa (Mazatldn; Pre- 

 sidio de Mazatlin; Escuinapa), Colima (Armerla; Plains of Colima), 

 Michoacdn (Los Reyes), Mexico (near City of Mexico; Tlalpfim), 

 Puebla, Vera Cr\iz (Jalapa; Orizaba; Aijhotdl; Cofre de Perote; 

 Playa Vicente), Oaxaca (Tehufintepec; Chimalapa; Juchitdn; Caco- 

 prieto), and Yucatto (San Ignficio), and Territory of Tepic (Ixtl&n; 

 Vente de Astillero; Tres Marias Islands), to Guatemala (Duenas; 

 San Ger6nimo; Lanquin; AcapAm; Gualto; Naranjo; El Rancho, 

 Zacapa; ViUaNueva; ChiapAm; SanJos6); reappearhig * in western 

 Panama (Divala, ChiriquI). Accidental in New York City and New- 

 buryport, Massachusetts (escaped from captivity?). 



Strix cunicularia (not of Molina) Bonaparte, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ii, pt. i, 1826, 36; 

 1828, 435 (crit.); Am. Om., i, 1825, 68, pi. 7, fig. 2.— Swainson and Richard- 

 son, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 99, in text. — Ntjttall, Man. Om. U. S. and 

 Can., Land Birds, 1832, 118; 2d ed., 1840, 123.— Audubon, Om. Biog., v, 

 1839, 264, pi. 432. 



Sumia cunicularia AvDVBON, Synopsis, 1839, 22; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 119, 

 pi. 31. 



Athene cunicularia Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 6. — Cassin, Cat. 

 Striges Mus. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1849, 15; in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 60.— Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 59; Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 5 (San Diego, California); Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., X, no. 2, 1859, 13 (Uncompagre R., Utah; descr.). — Kennehlt, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, no. 3, 1859, 20 (Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley, 

 etc., California; habits). — ^Heermann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., iv, no. 2, 



a These Louisiana birds possibly S. floridana. 



& Probably occurring, in suitable localities, also in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa 

 Rica; indeed, it has already been recorded from the last-named coimtry but without 

 definite locality or other data, and no specimen is known to be extant. 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 52 



