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-gray, the other red, and some of the young wereof red, and some of the gray type 

 of coloration, this being a common occurrence. The eggs of this bird > range 

 usually from four to six, frequently eight; they are white, nearly round andaverage 

 1.40x1.20. 



373«. FliOBIBA SCBEECH OWL. ■ Meffascops as in floridanus (Riigw.) Geog. 

 Dist. — Florida, Southern Georgia, occasional in Lousiana. 



A smaller and much darker form in the red and gray phases of plumage in- 

 habiting Florida and adjoining regions. Its habits are the same las those of M. asio, 

 and eggs in my collection are not distinguishable except, perhaps, by their smaller 

 , size, 1.32x1.15. 



37Sh. TEXAS SCREECH OWL. Megascops asio trichopsis (Wagl.) Geog. Dist 

 ^Rio Grande Valley of Texas, south to Guatemala. 



This is a slightly darker bird than asio, of the same size as florldanus, and found 

 In the red and gray plumage. Three eggs in my cabinet, collected near Corpus 

 Christi, March 20, 1885, measure 1.36x1.17, 1.33x1.18, 1.36x1.15. 



373c. CALIEOBrNIA SCREECH OWL. Meifascops asio hcndirei (Brewst.) 

 Geog. Dist. — California. 



No red phase of plumage is known in this bird; it is grayish-brown or brownish- 

 gray, and very much like .1/. asin, being of the same size. Eggs in my collection 

 from Petaluma and Riverside, California, do not differ from those of the Eastern 

 representative". Four specimens measure 1.38x1.18, 1.40x1.18, 1.47x1.19, 1.47x1.20. 

 The average of ten eggs is 1.40x1.17. 



373(;. KENNICOTT'S SCREECH OWL. Meyascops usiu kennicottU (Elliot.) 

 Geog. Dist. — Region of the Northwest coast, from Sitka to Oregon, east to Montana. 



Kennicott's Screech Owl, in the red and gray phase of plumage, averages con- 

 siderably larger than asio and mccallii. Length about eleven inches. Its general 

 habits are essentially the same as those of M. asio. Major Bendire gives the sizes 

 ef a set of four eggs taken from a hole in a cottonwood in Washington Territory, 

 April 7, as 1.47x1.28, 1.43x1.29, 1.45x1.30, 1.46x1.30. The cavity from which these 

 «jggs were taken was sixteen Inches deep and twenty-five feet from the ground. 



373c. ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCREECH OWL. Meffascops asio maxwellUe 

 (Ridgw.) Geog. Dist. — Rocky Mountain region, from Colorado north to Montana. 



This form of the Screech Owl has been named in honor of Mrs. M. A. Maxwell, of 

 Boulder, Colorado, a noted huntress and taxidermist. No gray phase is observed 

 in this form, but the whole plumage is very light colored. Mr. Norris Has a set of 

 four eggs, taken near Loveland, Colorado, April 20, 1888; they measure 1.49x1.19, 

 1.46x1.20, 1.46x1.21, 1.54x1.26. 



373^ MEXICAN SCREECH OWL. Meyascops asio cineraeceus (Ridgw.) 

 Gfog. Dist. — New Mexico, Arizona, Lower California and Western Mexico. 



