138 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Islands. January 31 or February 1, 1842. Original number 395. 

 U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 



Order STRIGIFORMES: Owls 



Family TYTONIDAE: Barn-owls 



Genus TYTO Billberg 



Strix lulu Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. andOrn.) : 74, "pi. xxi," 1848. 

 =Tyto alba lulu (Peale). See Peters, Checklist of birds of the world 



4: 80, 1940. 

 13878. Adult (sex not indicated). Samoan Islands, Oceania. Original 



number 30. U.S. Explormg Expedition (1838-1842). 

 13881. Adult (sex not indicated). Samoan Islands, Oceania. Original 



number 30. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). 

 Although Cassin's MS. list indicates that he saw but four specimens, the 

 museum register contains five entries for this form. No. 13877, from 

 Ovalau Island in the Fijis, was sent to the Chicago Academy of Sciences in 

 1870, as was also No. 13882, a female from the Samoan Islands; both were 

 destroyed there in the Great Fire. No. 13883, from the Samoan Islands, 

 is now No. 75665 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 

 Strix flammea, var. Guatenialse Ridgway 



in Baird and Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst. 5:200, December 1873. 

 =Tyto alba guatemalae (Ridgway). See Peters, Checklist of birds of the 

 world 4: 80, 1940. 



40960. Immature (sex not indicated). Chinandega, Department of 

 Chinandega, Nicaragua. Entered into the museum register on January 

 9, 1866. Collected by Fred Hicks. Received through Albert Hopkins 

 from the Williams College Lyceum of Natural History. 



40961. Adult (sex not indicated). Same data as No. 40960. 

 40963. Adult (sex not indicated) . Same data as No. 40960. 



This form, said to occur from Panama to Guatemala, was based upon a 

 series of 13 specimens. If a restricted type locality were to be chosen, one 

 might suppose, from the name, that it should properly lie somewhere in 

 Guatemala, but as late as 1914 (Birds of North and Middle America 6: 610, 

 footnote a), Ridgway had not yet even seen a Guatemaltecan example and 

 at this time and place he himself restricted the type locality to Chinandega 

 in Nicaragua. 



Since at least two races occur within the range originally adduced for 

 guatemalae, a restriction was necessary, and accordingly, of the original 

 material, only the specimens from Chinandega are here treated as cotypes. 

 In addition to those listed, there was a fourth, No. 40962; it was sent on 

 November 25, 1872, to "labour College." 



