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Adult female. —Length (skins), 465-510 (486); wing, 350-365 

 (359.7); tail, 235-252 (242.6); culmen, from cere, 24.5-28.5 (26.8).« 



Higher mountains of central and southern Mexico, in States of Vera 

 Ci'uz (Mirador), Puebla (pine zone of Mount Orizaba), Mexico ("Val- 

 ley of Mexico"), Oaxaca (La Parada; Cerro San Felipe), Guerrero 

 (Omilteme), Michoacto (Mount Tancltaro), Jalisco (Las Canoas; 

 Volcan de Nieve; Cerro Vie jo Jojolitdn; Sierra de CuyutMn; Los 

 Masos; Colonia Brizuela, near Autlan), and Durango (Ciud&d 

 Durango). 



Symium nebulosum (not Strix nebulosa Forster) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



1858, 295 (La Parada, Oaxaca). 

 Symium ncbulosuvi, var. sartorii Ridgway, BuU. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 200 



(Mirador, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgwaj^, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 29, footnote. 

 [Srynium nebulosum] h. sarLorii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 309 (synonjTny). 

 Syrnium sartorii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 258, footnote. — Gurney, 



Cat. Bii-ds of Prey, 1894, 40. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 



iii, 1897, 9 (Ciudad Durango; Cerro Viejo Jojolitan, Sierra de Cuyutlan, and 



Colonia Brizuela near Autlan, Jalisco; Monte Alto; Valley of Mexico; La 



Parada, Oaxaca; Mirador, Vera Cruz). 

 [Symium] sartorii Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 

 S[yrnium] nebulosum sartorii Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 258. 

 Symium nebulosum sartorii Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (pine zone of Mt. Orizaba, 



Puebla). 



STRIX FULVESCENS (Sclater and Salvin). 



GTTATEMALAN BARRED OWL. 



Resembling S. varia and subspecies in pattern of coloration (the 

 toes naked as in S. v. alleni and S. v. alhogilva), but decidedly smaller 

 and coloration much more fulvescent, the lighter markings mostly 

 light oclu-aceous or deep buff instead of whitish. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Prevailing color of upper parts rich dark 

 warm brown (dark burnt umber or dark Vandyke brovni); pileum, 

 hindneck, and upper back very broadly barred with light ochraceous 

 to deep buff, the first two having two bars on each feather, about 

 equal in width to the dark brown interspaces, the last with only one 

 ochraceous bar, this much broader than the dark brown terminal bar; 

 scapulars, lower back, and rump with less regular, as well as mostly 

 smaller, bars or transverse spots of ochraceous, those on posterior 

 portion of scapulars paler (sometimes whitish), in form of transverse 

 ovoid spots; wing-coverts with small and indistinct bars or spots of 

 pale brown and ochraceous, the outer webs of distal greater and 

 middle coverts with large roundish subterminal spots of wliite; sec- 

 ondaries crossed by five or six rather broad bands (two of them con- 

 cealed by greater coverts) of light broAvn more or less mottled with 

 darker and usually becoming whitish toward edge; outer webs of 

 primaries with large spots, these light brown on proximal quills, 



o Seven specimens. 



