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Genus PSEUDOSCOPS Kaup. 



Pseudoscops Ka.up, Isis, 1848, 769; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, pt. vi, 1859, 231. 

 (Type, Ephialies grammicus Gosse.) 



Medium-sized BubonidjB (wing about 197-229 mm.) with conspic- 

 uous ear-tufts, very large, operculate, asymmetrical external ear-open- 

 ings, naked toes, tail more than half as long as wing, and with three 

 outer primaries emarginated near tip of inner web. 



Bill moderately stout; top of cere nearl}?- straight (faintly arched) 

 shorter than chord of culmen. Nostril rather large, broadly oval, in 

 anterior edge of cere. Wing moderate, the longest primaries exceed- 

 ing distal secondaries by a httle less than one-fourth the length of 

 wing; sixth, seventh, and eighth*^ primaries longest, the tenth (appar- 

 ent outermost) about equal to second;^ three outer primaries with 

 inner webs emarginated, the third indistinctly so, however. Tail 

 more than half as long as wing, very slightly rounded. Tarsus 

 shorter than middle toe with claw, densely clothed, all round, with 

 soft, hair-hke feathers; toes completely naked. 



Coloration. — Tawny or tawny-buff, veimiculated and streaked 

 with dusky, the vermiculations most distinct on the upper parts, 

 the streaks most so on the lower suiface; primaries spotted (in trans- 

 verse series) with buff and dusky brown, and tail with numerous 

 interrupted bars of the same. 



Range. — Island of Jamaica. (Monotypic.) 



PSEUDOSCOPS GRAMMICUS (Gosse). 



JAMAICAN LONG-EARED OWL. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts tawny-brown or 

 cinnamon-brown (sometimes more grayish buffy brown), finely ver- 

 miculated with dusky and, usually, with more or less distinct mesial 

 streaks of blackish, the pileum usually more distinctly tawny or 

 cinnamomeous, often with more regular bars of blackish; plumage 

 throughout light ochraceous or ochraceous-buff beneath surface ; wing- 

 coverts usually with larger, broader, mesial serrated streaks or hastate 

 markings of dusky and more or less intermixture of irregular dull 

 ochi'aceous spotting; outer w^ebs of primaries with distinct quadrate 

 spots of dusky and ochraceous, both broken, more or less, by fine 

 motthngs; tail crossed by about seven to ten narrow bands of mottled 

 dusky and mottled brownish buff, these bands sometimes indistinct 

 from confusion of the motthngs; face, including ''eyebrows" and 

 lores, deep tawny or russet, more or less darker around eyes; facial 

 rim uniform brownish black for auricular portion (the stiff feathers 

 of auricular operculum dull white or pale dull buff abruptly tipped 

 with brownish black), the gular portion cinnamon-buff or light 



o Third, fourth, and fifth from outside. 

 6 Ninth from outside. 



