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mostly whitish on distal ones ; tail crossed by four or five very dis- 

 tinct narrow bands of light ochraceous-buff, or buffy white, these inter- 

 rupted only by the dark brown shafts; face, including "eyebrows" 

 (superciliary region), dull brownish white, the postocular, auricular, 

 and suborbital regions concentrically barred with dark brown, the 

 bars broader and darker posteriorly, narrower and more faint ante- 

 riorly, the feathers of lores and superciliary region with black shafts ; 

 feathers immediately surrounding eyes dusky; facial rim or border 

 very dark brown (dark seal brown), in part (mostly along posterior 

 edge and across throat) spotted with buff; ground color of under 

 parts light ochraceous to buff; foreneck, chest, and breast broadly 

 barred with dark brown (like general color of upper parts), the bars 

 mucli wider on lower breast; sides, flanks, and abdomen (except 

 along median line) broadly striped with deep brown (vandyke brown 

 to mars brown); legs more or less barred or mottled with brown; 

 under tail-coverts mostly immaculate, but usually the longer feathers 

 with a narrow mesial subterminal streak of brown; bill light yellow; 

 iris dark brown; toes light yellowish brown (in dried skins). 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 417; wing, 300-325 (312.5); tail, 

 192-200 (196); culmen, from cere, 22.5-24.5 (23.5).« 



Higlilands of Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego; Volcan de Tacana; 

 Texpam; Cajabon; Duenas; near Antigua) and Chiapas (Teopisca) . 



Symium nebulosum (not Strix nehulosa Forster) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 221 (Cajabon, Guatemala). 



Symium fulvesccns Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1868, 58 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Salvin and Godmau and Brit. Mus.). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., ii, 1875, 258. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 

 9, pi. 61 (near Antigua, Cajabon, Duenas, Volcan de Fuego, and Volcan de 

 Tacana, Guatemala). 



[Symium] fulvescens Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 48, no. 506. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 



[Symium nebulosum] vai. fulvescens Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 

 200, in text. 



Symium nebulosum, var. fulvescens Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

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



[Symium nebulosum\ c. fulvescens Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 309 (synonymy). 



Ulula fulvescens Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 19. 



STRIX OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS (Xantus). 



SPOTTED OWL 



Somewhat like S. varia but smaller, spotted, instead of barred, 

 above, and posterior under parts spotted instead of striped. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Upper parts brown (nearest warm sepia), 

 irregularly spotted with white, the spots larger and more transverse 



a Two specimens. No specimens with sex determined as male are in the series 

 examined. Five specimens ot unknown sex measure as follows: Length (skins), 

 410^85 (457); wing, 300-310 (307); tail, 188-210 (202.8); culmen, from cere, 22-24 



(23). 



