6 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ZOOLOGY, VOL. XII. 



Speotyto cunicularia grallaria (Temminck). 



Judging from Temminck's description and plate * and the unsatis- 

 factory description by Spix ** the type of 5. grallaria approaches 

 nearest in size and coloration to specimens of Speotyto from Sao Paulo, 

 Brazil. Birds from that region have the front and sides of the tarsus 

 fully feathered (as shown in Temminck's plate) but not nearly so 

 thickly as in birds from Argentina and Chile, and decidedly less sparsely 

 feathered than in birds from Bahia. Hellmayr f examined a specimen 

 supposed to have been secured by the Spix expedition and labeled 

 "Athene grallaria Tern. Cunicularia L. (?) Brazilien," and he states 

 that while it approached nearer to birds from the Rio Verde (Minas 

 Geraes) than to those from Ypiranga, Sao Paulo, it differed in some ways 

 from both. There appears to be no certainty as to where the supposed 

 Spix specimen was taken, or, in fact, that it represented true S. gral- 

 laria, and as the type of that species seems to have been lost, I propose 

 "Minas Geraes" (the first locality mentioned by Spix) as the type 

 locality for grallaria. The type localities and supposed distribution 

 of the southeastern and southern forms of 5. cunicularia will therefore 

 be as follows: 



Speotyto cunicularia cunicularia (Molina). (Chile) Tarsus thickly 

 feathered (except at the back); dark markings paler; wing (females) 

 averaging 184; tail averaging about 93 mm. Range: Chile, Argentina, 

 Patagonia, and Uruguay. 



Speotyto cunicularia grallaria (Temminck). (Minas Geraes, Brazil) 

 Tarsus fully feathered (except at the back) but decidedly less thickly 

 than in 5. c. cunicularia; brown markings darker; wing (females) averag- 

 ing 175, tail about 82 mm. Range: Southern Brazil (Minas Geraes, 

 Sao Paulo, Parana, and perhaps somewhat farther south) and Paraguay. 



Speotyto cunicularia beckeri Cory. (Sao Marcello, Rio Preto, Bahia, 

 Brazil) Tarsus very sparsely feathered, the lower portion being prac- 

 tically bare; brown markings decidedly darker than in S. c. grallaria 

 and heavier and more extensive below; forehead white (width about 



7 mm.); wing (females) averaging about 168, tail about 75 mm. 

 Range: Bahia and probably Goyaz and Paiuhi and perhaps farther 

 north and west. 



Scardafella squammata cearae subsp. nov. 



Type from Quixada, Ceara, Brazil. Adult male, No. 45330, Field 

 Museum of Natural History. Collected by R. H. Becker, June 21, 1913. 



* PI. Col. ii, 1822, pi. 146. 



** Av. Bras., i, 1824, p. 21. 



t Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Munchen, XXII, 1906, p. 574. 



