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(405. Otus* watsonii (Cass.). 
Ephialtes Watsonii Cassin, Proc, Acad. Philad. iv. p. 123 (Dec. 1848.—“ South America ”) ; Journ. 
Acad, Philad. ii. pt. ii, Jan. 1852, p. 95. tab, xii, fig. 1. 
Pisorhina Watsonii Hellmayr, Nov. Zool, xiv. p. 407 (Humaytha). 
Ephialtes atricapillus Pelzeln, l.c. p. 9 (part, : Engenho do Gama, Matogrosso, Rio Guapore ; Borba, 
Rio Madeira ; Rio Negro). 
Right bank : Borba (Natterer) ; left bank : Haumaytha (Hoffmanns), 
Dr. Lorenz has kindly sent me four of Natterer’s specimens (d ad., Rio Negro, 
January 13, 1831; ¢¢ ad., Borba, July 1830; dad, Borba, March 1830). Two 
agree perfectly with Hoffmanns’ skin from Humaytha and others from Eastern 
Ecuador, while a male from Borba is rather paler underneath. The fourth example 
(3, Borba) is in the rufous phase. O. watsonii is perfectly distinct from 0. c. 
crucigerus, as pointed out by me /.c. 
S.atricapilla Temm.,f based upon a Nattererian skin from Rio, is evidently the 
same as Scops sanctae-catarinae Saly.,t over which name it has priority by many 
years. | 
[406. Otus choliba crucigera (Spix). 
[Strie choliba Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. vii. p. 39 (1817.—ex Azara No, 48: Paraguay).] 
Strie crucigera Spix, Av, Bras. i. p. 22. pl. ix, (1824.—“ juxta flumen Amazonum”’). 
Ephialtes Choliba Pelzeln, /.c. p. 9 (Borba). 
Borba (Natterer). 
The single specimen in the Vienna Museum seems best to agree with the 
Amazonian race. Cf. Abhandl. Bayer. Akad. Wissensch. xxii. 3. p. 575. | 
(407. Glaucidium brasilianum brasilianum (Gm.). 
Striz brasiliana Gmelin, Syst. Nat. 1. i. p. 289 (1788.—ex Brisson: ex Marcegrave—Eastern 
Brazil). 
Athene ferruginea Pelzeln, J.c. p. 9 (Borba). 
Right bank : Borba (Natterer). | 
[408. Asio stygius (Wagler). 
Nyctalops stygius Wagler, Isis 1832. p. 1221 (1832.—“ in Brasilia sive in Africa meridionali ”— 
Mus, Eichstitt. The type, now in the Munich Museum, is marked “ Brazil from the province 
Minas Geraés”). ; 
Otus stygius Pelzeln, I.c. p. 10 (Borba). 
Right bank: Borba (Natterer). ag 
This singular species ranges throughout Brazil from the Rio Negro soutivensiia 
to Rio Grande do Sul. Having never seen Cuban specimens, I cannot say whether 
they are really identical with the Brazilian ones. | 
[409. Syrnium superciliare Pelz. 
Syrnium superciliare Pelzeln, Verhandl. Zool. Bot, Gesellsch. Wien xiii, p. 1125 (1863.—City of 
Mattogrosso, Rio Guaporé) ; Hellmayr, Nov. Zool. xiv. p. 407 (Borba), 
Right bank: city of Mattogrosso (Natterer), Borba (Hoffmanns). 
Also recorded from Para (Wallace). | 
* Otus takes the place of Pisorhina and Scops. Cf, Allen, Bull. Amer, Mus, N. York xxiii. 1907, 
p. 334, 
+ Strix atricapilla Temminck, Pl. col, livr. 25, pl. 145 (1822.—* Brésil— Musée de Vienne ”). 
t Salvin, Bull. B. O. C. vi. p. xxxvii. (1897,—Southern Brazil). 
