BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICa' 611 



Central America, from Guatemala « (Duenas; San Ger6mmo) 

 through Salvador (San Salvador), Honduras, Nicaragua (Jalapa; 

 Saval^; Matagalpa; San Carlos; Chinandega), and Costa Rica (San 

 Jose; Ochomogo), to Panama (^>ragua; Nata, Code; Loma del 

 Leon). 



Strix perlata (not of Lichtenstein) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868 132 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 367 (Costa Rica).— 

 Salvin and Godman, BioL Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 2, part (Duenas and 

 San Geronimo, Guatemala; « Salvador; San Carlos, and Chinandega, Nic- 

 aragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama). 



[Strix] perlata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 300, part (Central America). 



Strix pratincola perlata Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 125, part (Nica- 

 ragua). 



Strix pratincola (not of Bonaparte) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (Gua- 

 temala). 



[Strix] flammea (not of Linnaeus) Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116, 

 part. 



Strix flammea (not of Linnaeus) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, part 

 (Veragua, Panama; "Mexico"). 



(?) Strix flammea Boucard, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 22 (Guatemala). 



Strix flammea, var. guatemalas Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 200 

 (" Panama to Guatemala " ; type locality not given, but type from Chinandega, 

 Nicaragua; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii^ 1874, 11 (Chinandega, Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Salvador). 



Strix pratincola guatemalce Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 125 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San Jose). 



[Strix flammea var. ainericana] f . guatemalae Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 299 

 (synonymy). 



Strix guatemalx Sharpe. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 302 ("Mexico"; Veragua, 

 Panama). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 16 (Loma del Leon, 

 Panama). 



Aluco pratincolus guateimalae Zeledon, Proc. V . S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1885, 111 (Costa 

 Rica). 



Aluco pratincola guatemalse Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 479 (San 

 Jose and Ochomogo, Costa Rica). 



T\]/to] alba guatemalds Hartert, Vog. Paliiarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 

 1913, 1039. 



TYTO BARGEI (Hartert). 



CTJRAgAO BARN OWL. 



Similar in coloration to T. alba (of Europe) but much smaller, 

 with wings relatively shorter. 



"Face white; a dark brown spot in front of the eye. Upper 

 surface the same as in most of the European specimens. Beneath 

 white, sparsely spotted with dark brown. Tail pale grayish isabelline, 

 spotted with dark gray, and Avith four distinct blackish bars. Iris 

 deep browTi. Bill whitish flesh color, toes brown, claws deep bro^^Ti. 



o No Guatemalan examples of this form have been seen by me, the localities being 

 cited from the Biologia Centrali- Americana (iii, p. 2). 



