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Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; Cobanand San Pedro Martir, Guatemala; San Jose, etc., 

 Costa Rica; Vivala, etc., Panama). — Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 358 (Divala, 

 Chiriqui, Panama). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 476 (San Jos6, 

 Pozo Azul de Pirris, Santo Domingo, Escazu, Rio Sicsola, and El Hogar, 

 Costa Rica). 



[Lophostrix] stricklandi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



[Scops] stricklajidi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 499. 



Scops stricklandi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 124. 



Genus BUBO Dumeril. 



Bubo Dumeril, Zool. Analytique, 1806, 34. (Type, by tautonomy, Strix bubo 



Linnaeus.) 

 Ascalaphia Geoffroy St. Hilaire, L'Echo du monde savant, 4« annee, Jan. 7, 



1837, 4 (nomen nudum here? but later authors give type as Bubo ascalaphu^ 



Savigny). 

 (?) Huhua Hodgson, Asiat. Researches, xix, 1836, 173. (Type, Bubo nipalensis 



Hodgson.) 

 Heliaptex Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 217. (Type, Strix (Bubo) arctica 



Swainson.) 

 (?) Urrua Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vi, 1837, 372. (Type, Otvs bengal- 



ensis Franklin). 

 Byas a Morris, in N. Wood's Naturalist, ii, no. 9, June, 1837, 123. (Type, B. 



nobilis 'Moms=Strix bubo Linnaeus.) 

 (?) Etoglaux Hodgson, Joiu-n. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x, 1841, 28. (Type, Bubo 



nipalensis Hodgson.) 

 (?) Mesomorpha Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x, 1841, 28. (Type, Otus 



bengalensis Franklin.) 

 Aibryas Gloger, Handb. Naturg., 1842, 223. (Type, Stiix {Bubo) arctica 



Swainson.) 

 Nyctaetus Gloger, Handb. Naturg., 1842, 223. (Type, Strix Zacfea Temminck.) 

 Megaptynx Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, '^ Strix 



magellanicus Gmelin " — Bubo magellanicus Daudin.) 

 Pachyptynx Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, Strix 



lactea Temminck.) 

 Nisuella Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, Strix 



maculosa Vieillot.) 

 (?) Ptiloskclos TiCKELL, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxviii, 1859, 448. (Type, Bubo 



nipa lensis Hodgson . ) 



Large to very large Bubonidae (wing about 350-520 mm.), with 

 conspicuous ear-tufts, external ear-opening relatively small, simple, 

 and nonoperculate, cere not inflated laterally, toes feathered, and bUl 

 and feet relatively stout. 



Bill very stout; top of cere much shorter than chord of culmen, 

 gradually but slightly ascending basaUy, not distinctly if at all 

 arched. Nostril moderately large, circular or broadly oval, opening 

 in upper-anterior edge of cere, enclosing within its upper-posterior mar- 

 gin an oblique cartilaginous shelf. External ear-openings relatively 

 small, oval, without dermal flap or operculum, symmetrical, but 



o ^Oac, the owl. (Richmond.) 



