2 STRIGIDA. 
S. candida as distinct species, there remains the variable S. flammea, concerning which 
much difference of opinion has and does prevail as to whether the bird of the tes 
World is separable from that of the New, and whether the latter again is divisible into 
several forms. In the present instance we treat the American bird as distinct from 
that of Europe; and going beyond our present subject we may state that we believe 
that S. punctatissima of the Galapagos Islands, 8. nigrescens of the Lesser Antilles, 
and perhaps S. furcata of Jamaica can, as a rule, be readily recognized from the 
continental bird. 
1. Strix perlata. . 
Strix perlata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 59°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 132 2. y. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 
1869, p. 367°. 
Strix pratincola, Bp. Comp. List, p.7*; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 890°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 
p. 222°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 188"; Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 270°; Ferrari- 
Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 163°; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 178, 821”; Bendire, 
Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, i. p. 325, t. 12. f. 17"; Jouy, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p, 787 3 
. Fisher, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. no. 9, p. 182, t. 19”. 
Striv flammea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 291 (partim)"*; in Rowley’s Orn. Misc. i. p. 263” 5 
Boucard, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 456°". 
Strix flammea, var. pratincola, Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 137; Lawr. 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 298%; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 88'°; Sumichrast, La 
Nat. v. p. 238”. 
Strix flammea, var. guatemala, Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 11”. 
Strix flammea guatemale, Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 
p- 827”°; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 520”. 
Supra cervina, nigricanti-griseo et albo minutissime irrorata, plumis singulis macula elongata medialiter alba 
terminata, facie alba, oculorum ambitu rufescente, margine faciali nigricanti-rufo: subtus alba, cervino 
plerumque lavata, nigricante guttato, plumis singulis medialiter biguttatis; alis subtus albis, primariis ad 
apicem nigricante irroratis et in dimidio distali nigricante fasciatis ; cauda supra pallide cervina, fasciis 
quatuor indistinctis notata inter eas fusco irrorata. Long. tota circa 15°5, ale 13-0, caude 5:8, tarsi 2°9. 
(Deser. exempl. ex San Gerdnimo, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
fab. Nortu America, Temperate and Southern States.—Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan 
(forrer), Tres Marias Is. (Grayson ® 15), Rio Ameria (Xantus 18), Aguas Calientes 
(W. B. Richardson), Agua Azul near Guadalajara (Jouy 1”), Arozo Hondo, Gudala- 
jara (Dr. A. C. Buller, in mus. Rothschild), Guanajuato, Guadalajara (Dugés *), 
Valley of Mexico (Herrera’), Mexicalcingo, Llano de Chapulco®, Forres 
de la Catedral de Puebla®, Chietla® (Ferrari-Perez), Orizaba (Sumichrast°), 
Oaxaca (Boucard®, M. Tryjillo), Cacoprieto*°, Tehuantepec city 1°, Tonala 20 
(Suimichrast), Izamal 1%, Tizimin 16, Calotmul in Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer) ; GuATE- 
MALA (Skinner ®), Duefias, San Gerdénimo (0. S. & F. D. G.); Satvapor (U.S. Nat. 
Mus.); Nicaraeua (J. M. Dow, in U.S. Nat. Mus.21), San Carlos (W. B. Richardson), 
Chinandega (Hicks, in U.S. Nat. Mus.*"), R. Escondido (Richmond 4); Costa Rica? 
