148 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Asio maculosus amerimnus Oberholser 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 28: 856, July 8, 1905. 

 =Bubo africanus africanus (Temminck). See Friedmann, U.S. Nat. 



Mus. Bull. 153:303, 1930. 

 86457. Adult female. Durban, Natal, Union of South Africa. Entered 



into the museum register on May 18, 1882. Collected by Thomas 



Ayres. Original number 22. Received from the Norwich Museum. 



Genus PULSATRIX Kaup 



Pulsatrix perspicillala saturata Ridgway 



Birds of North and Middle America 6: 758, April 8, 1914. 



155672. Adult female. Mountains near Santo Domingo, State of Oaxaca, 

 Mexico. June 18, 1895. Collected by Edward W. Nelson and Edward 

 A. Goldman. Original number 2809. Received from the U.S. Fish 

 and Wildlife Service. 

 Pulsatrix perspicillala aiistini L. Kelso 

 Biol. Leaflet 10: 3, November 10, 1938. 



=Pulsatrix perspicillala saturata Ridgway. See Peters, Checklist of 

 birds of the world 4: 124, 1940. 



198769. Adult female. Pigres (at the point where the Rio Grande de 

 Tarcoles enters the Gulf of Nicoya), Province of Puntarenas, Costa 

 Rica. March 4, 1905. Collected by Robert Ridgway. 

 Pulsatrix perspicillala ecuadoreana L. Kelso 

 Biol. Leaflet 10: 6, November 10, 1938. 



=Pulsatrix perspicilhta chapmani Griscom. See Peters, Checklist of 

 birds of the world 4:124, 1940. 



101308. Adult (sex not indicated). "Guayaquil, Ecuador," error="the 

 interior of Ecuador" {fide Jones, in epist. November 11, 1884). 

 Entered into the museum register on January 5, 1885. Received from 

 William H. Jones, who acquired it, with other birds, from "Mr. Cart- 

 right Agt. P.S.N. Co. Guayaquil as a gift" (in epist. cit.) . 

 Pulsatrix perspicillala boliviana L. Kelso 

 Biol. Leaflet 2: [1], December 21, 1933. 



264558. Adult female. Carapari (elev. 1,000 meters). Department of 

 Tarija, Bolivia. September 1924. Collected by Emilio Budin, Jr. 

 Original number 28. 



Genus NYCTEA Stephens 



Nyctea scandiaca, var. arclica "Gray" Ridgway 



in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, History of North American birds, 

 (land birds) 3: 70, January 1874. 

 =Nyctea scandiaca (Linnaeus). See Ridgway, Birds of North and 

 Middle America 6:768,772, 1914; Peters, CheckUst of birds of the 

 world 4: 125, 1940. 



