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of Vera Paz. Quite recently Mr. Richardson sent us a skin which he secured on the 
Volcano of Mombacho, in Western Nicaragua, and it has been recorded both from 
Costa Rica and the State of Panama. It also occurs in trade collections from Bogota 
with the allied form C. spilonota; but these birds are not likely to be found together, 
but in different valleys, C. nigrolineata probably occurring in the Magdalena Valley. 
Of the habits of this Owl nothing has been recorded. According to Sumichrast the 
iris in life is black. 
B. Ptilosis brunnea et cervina, aut brunnea cervino variegata. 
2. Ciccaba perspicillata. 
Spectacle Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 50, t. 107°. 
Strix perspicillata, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 58°. 
Syrnium perspicillatum, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 222°; P. Z. S. 1864, p. 370*; 1867, p. 280°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 289°; ix. p. 1827; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 366°; 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 277°; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238”. 
Chouette & masque noir, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. i. p. 172, t. 44". 
Strix torquata, Daud. Traité, ii. p. 193”. 
Ciccaba torquata, Scl. P. Z, S. 1857, p. 227; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 366“. 
Pulsatriz torquata, Salv. P.Z.S. 1870, p. 216”; Lawr. Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 38”; 
Nutting, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 4037; vi. p. 8887°; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa 
Rica, 1887, p. 125. 
Supra brunnea, alis et dorso indistincte fusco fasciatis ; cauda fasciis sex notata ; superciliis, loris elongatis, gula 
et abdomine toto cervinis (hoc interdum brunneo transfasciato) ; alis subtus cervinis, remigibus saturate 
brunneis. Long. tota circa 18-0, alee 13°8, caude 7-5. (Descr. femine ex Calovevora, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. Plerumque cervina, facie tota nigerrima. 
Hab. Mexico, Atoyac (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Santecomapam (Boucard 1%), Omealca, 
Uvero 1°, Tehuantepec, Santa Efigenia !°!° (Sumichrast) ; British Honpuras, Cayo 
in the western district (Llancaneaux); GuatTEMALA, Choctum, Escuintla? (0. 8. & 
PF. D. G.); Satvapor, La Libertad (W. B. Richardson); Nicaragua, Sucuyd 
(Nutting 18), Blewfields (Wickham °), Chinandega, Momotombo, San Emilio (W. B. 
Richardson); Costa Rica ®, Nicoya (Arcé), Bebedero (C.F. Underwood, in mus. 
Rothschild), Las Anonas (v. Frantzius'4, Zeledon’), La Palma (Nutting 1"), 
Angostura (Zeledon °); Panama, Chitra 15, Castillo !®, Bugaba !5, Calobre (Arcé), 
Lion Hill (1£*Leannan +°).—Sourn America generally, from Colombia and Guiana 
to Brazil ®. 
The Spectacle Owl, as Latham calls this species 1, is one of the commonest and best- 
known of the Owls of South America, where it enjoys a wide range. It is also 
distributed over the whole of Central America, South-eastern Mexico as far as the 
middle of the State of Vera Cruz, and probably beyond to the limits of the forests of 
that region. 
In Guatemala we met with it on both sides of the mountain-range, but only in the 
