BIRDS OF KORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 661 



Guiana; Amazon Valley; Brazil).— Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 



330 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil; crit.).— Salvador:, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, 



XV, 1900, 12 (Urucum, Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil).— Hartert and Venturi, 



Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 235 (Tucuman, Argentina). 

 [Asio] stygius Cory, List Birds "West Ind., 1885, 21.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 



281. 

 A[sio] stygius Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 257. 

 Phasmoptynx stygius Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 3G. 

 Otus siguapa D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 31, pi. 2 



(Cuba).— Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 50 (Cuba).— Cabanis, Joum. fur 



Orn., 1855, 4G5 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 22G; 



Joum. fiir Orn., 1871, 374 (Cuba; habits). 

 0[tu^] siguapa Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 

 [Otus'] siguapa Gundlach, Joum. fur Orn., 1861, 322 (Cuba).— Gray, Hand-list, 



i, 18G9, 50, no. 543. 

 Asio siguapa Strickland, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 212. 

 Nyctalops stygius siguapa Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, April, 1905, 201 



(Isle of Pines, Cuba). 

 [Otus]melanopsis Lichtenstein, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 6 (Brazil). 

 Otus communis, var. Lesson, Traite d'Om., 1831, 110 (Brazil). 



ASIO FLAMMEUS FLAMMEUS (Pontoppidan). 



SHORT-EARED OWL. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of head, neck, back, scapulars, 

 rump, and under parts light ochraceous to buffy wliite (the individual 

 variation being very great), each feather, except on rump, with a 

 median stripe of dark brown or blackish brown, the stripes broadest 

 on scapulars ; occiput, hindneck, back, and chest with the ochraceous 

 (or buffy) and brown about equal in extent, but on the under parts 

 the brown stripes becoming gradually narrower posteriorly, until on 

 abdomen and sides they form narrow lines ; flanks, legs, anal region, 

 and under taU-coverts immaculate, the last nearly (sometimes quite) 

 pure white, the legs more deeply buffy or ochraceous; rump more 

 vinaceous buffy or ochraceous, with indistinct crescentic marldngs of 

 brown; wing-coverts coarsely variegated mth irregular markings of 

 dusky brown and ochraceous or buffy, the latter in form of indenta- 

 tions or confluent spots along edges of feathers, broadest on outer 

 webs ; secondaries dusky brown crossed by about five bands of oclira- 

 ceous or buffy, the last one terminal; primaries ochraceous or buff 

 on proximal two-thirds (more or less), the distal portion dusky 

 brown, tipped (broadly) with buffy, this becoming indistmct or obso- 

 lete on longest quills, the dusky brown continued proxunally m three 

 to five iiTegulaiiy transvei-se series of quadrate spots on outer webs, 

 leaving, however, a large basal area of plain ochraceous or buffy, 

 wliich sometimes passes into white anteriorly; primary coverts plain 

 blackish brown, with one or two indistinct transverse series of ochra- 

 ceous spots on middle portion ; tail ochraceous or buff passing into 

 white exteriorly and termiaally, crossed by about five bands of 



