142 THE BIRDS 
HYPOTHETICAL. 
GENUS CRYPTOGLAUX. 
[372]. Cryptoglaua acadica acadica (Gmelin). Saw- 
whet Owl. 
Rance.—-North America. Breeds from central and 
eastern British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, 
New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to central 
Arizona, New Mexico, southern Nebraska, northern 
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland (and Virginia?) ; 
winters south to southern California, Louisiana, Virginia 
(casually to the Carolinas), and Maine; casual or acci- 
dental in Mexico and Guatemala. 
As yet I have no positive evidence of this species breed- 
ing within our area. Rives, in his “A Catalogue of the 
Birds of the Virginias,”’ page 63, No. 139, quotes Captain 
C. H. Crumb as saying, “they breed on the mainland,” 
meaning the Cape Charles Peninsula. I know of no 
positive evidence of nest with eggs or young having been 
found within our area. 
GENus OTus. 
[373]. Otus asio asio (Linneus). Screech Owl. 
Ranez.—Eastern North America from Minnesota, 
Ontario, and New Brunswick south to northeastern Texas 
and Georgia, and west to about the 100th meridian; acci- 
dental in England. 
