Marshall, 1938 1. Otus flammeolus THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF OBSERVATIONS PRIOR TO 1938. DATES AND LOCALITIES ARE TAKEN FROM NOTES JOTTED IN FIELD MANUAL (HOFFMAN) Dry Lake, 9000 ft., N Base Mt. San Gorgonio, San Bernardino Co., Calif. June 29 & 30, 1935 Single, uninflected hoots, soft and very ventriloquial, given at different times throughout night - in 8 second intervals. Sometimes as long as 13 sec. intervals. Sounded very distant. On one night two Great Horned Owls were hooting at the same time as was Otus f. Hoots came from lodgepole pine timber on S North side lake. Clear, no moon. Whitakers Forest, 5500 ft., 10 mi. NE Badger, Tulare Co, Calif. July 14, 1935 Hooting heard several times during the brightly moon-lit night from my bed on porch of Cedar Cabin. Came from public camp across road to north. Single, at regular inter- vals. Trail from Sequoia Ranger Station to Park Ridge Lookout, S. Side Park Ridge, 6500 ft., Tulare Co., Calif. August 10 & 13, 1935 Measured, single hoots in 8 sec. intervals heard in same locality on each of these clear, brightly moonlit nights. On the 13th, on the way back down the mt., the owl was heard several hundred yds, ahead. I gave imitat- ed hoots and the owl soon come up the mt., and alighted in a gnarled Jeffrey Pine directly over my head. Here it continued to call. The obvious closeness of the bird and the slight volume of the calls made me certain that it was a very small bird and not possibly the full- voiced Long-eared Owl. Camp Chonokis, 6500 ft., 1 1/2 mi. E Bijou, S End Lake Tahoe, Eldorado Co., Calif. June 4, 1936 Series of single hoots in 6-8 sec intervals heard at various times during night from open foest of Jeffrey Pine on steep, rocky