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HORNED OWLS, ETC. 
Distribution. — Resident in Transition zone of New Mexico, Arizona, 
Lower California, and northwestern Mexico. 
373 g. M. a. aikeni Brewst. Aiken Screech Owl. 
About the size of the California screech owl but more ashy, the dark 
marking's coarser and more numerous both above and below. Wing: C.56, 
tail 3.80, bill from nostril .47. 
Distribution. — Colorado and southwesterly to central New Mexico and 
northeastern Arizona. 
373h. M. a. macfarlanei Brewst. MacFarlane Screech Owl. 
Size large and colors dark, but lighter than Jcennicottii ; upper parts 
brownish or sooty gray with black shaft streaks and creamy stripes on 
scapulars and edge of wing; lower parts with heavy shaft streaks and 
numerous fine cross-lines of black; legs and feet buffy, slightly mottled 
with dusky. Male: wing 6.96, tail 3.80, bill from nostril .53. Female: 
wing 7.23, tail 3.85, bill from nostril .57. 
Remarks. — Macfarlanei is the size of kennicottii but with color and 
markings more as in bendirei. 
Distribution. — Eastern Washington and Oregon to western Montana, 
and probably intermediate region, and north to the interior of British 
Columbia. 
373.1. M. trichopsis ( Wagl.). Spotted Screech Owl. 
A small dichromatic species. Gray phase : upper parts brownish gray, 
heavily lined with dusky ; lower parts grayish white, with broad shaft 
streaks and cross-lines of blackish ; a partial collar of mottled fulvous 
across throat and sides of neck. Red phase: mainly light rufous, obscurely 
streaked and barred with dusky. Length: 7.50, wing 5.66, tail 2.89, 
tarsus 1.17. 
Distribution. — From southern Arizona to Guatemala. 
374. Megascops flammeola ( Kaup ). Flammulated Screech 
Owl. 
Adults. — Toes entirely naked to extreme base; ear tufts small; upper parts 
grayish, finely mottled and marked with blackish ; stripes on sides of back 
yellowish brown or orange, white beneath the surface ; under parts whitish, 
marked with broad mesial streaks and narrow cross-bars ; face, throat, 
and upper parts sometimes washed with orange brown. Young: upper 
parts mottled transversely with gray and white, but without black streak¬ 
ing ; under parts similarly but coarsely and regularly barred. Wing: 
5.10-5.60, tail 2.60-3.00. 
Distribution. — From northern California and Colorado south to the high¬ 
lands of Guatemala. 
Nest. — In old woodpecker holes. Eggs : 3 or 4, white. 
Food. — Small mammals, scorpions, and beetles, and other insects. 
“ From what we know of the habits of the flammulated owl they 
seem to vary but little from the other races of the screech owl fam¬ 
ily. They are apparently strictly nocturnal, and their food consists 
of the smaller mammals, as well as beetles and other insects.” (Ben- 
dire.) 
