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barranca and two days later secured another from a little flock in a 

 dense growth of weeds in an old field. Both specimens were in very 

 ragged plumage. To my ear, long familiar with the querulous calls 

 of Grotophaga ani, the notes of this bird are quite different and 

 decidedly more musical. 



Family TYTONIDAE 



TYTO PERLATA GUATEMALAE (Ridgway) 



Strix flammea var. Guatemalae Ridgway, in Baird and Ridgway, Bull. Essex 

 Inst., Dec. 1873, p. 200 (Chinandega, Nicaragua*). 



A primary feather, marked by darker color when compared with 

 the barn owl of the United States, was found in the Barranca Honda 

 at the foot of Volcan de Fuego, November 2. 



Family STRIGIDAE 



SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA HYPUGAEA (Bonaparte) : Western Burrowing Owl 



Strix hypngaea Bonap.vrte, American ornithology, vol. 1, 1825, p. 72 (plains of 

 the Platte River). 



In a barren section of the Barranca Honda at 3,800 feet elevation 

 below Alotenango I saw two on November 2 and shot a female. 



Family CAPRIMULGIDAE 



CHORDEILES MINOR (Forster) 



Caprimulgus minor J. R. Forstee, A catalogue of the animals of North America, 

 1771, p. 13 (South Carolina). 



On the evening of November 12 several flew over the lake near the 

 Hotel Tsanyuyu. 



Family MICROPODIDAE 



STREPTOPROCNE ZONARIS MEXICANA Ridgway 



Streptoprocnc zonaris mexicana Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 23, 

 Apr. 19, 1910, p. 53 (Rio Seco, near Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico). 



On November 13 near Panajachel 15 or 20 coursed with their usual 

 amazing speed over the point of a hill high above the town. The first 

 one that I shot fell far away into the valley and was lost. But I 

 watched there until one came driving directly at me as I stood on the 

 pitch of a very steep slope and killed it 50 yards away, to have it hurtle 



* See Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of Nortli American Birds, vol. 3, January 

 1874, p. 11. 



