758 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Pulsatrix torquata ("i) ScLATE-R and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 304 (Cha- 

 micuros, e. Peru). — Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 187G, 81 (Santarem, lower 

 Amazon). — Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 71 (Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana). — Riker, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 160 (Santarem, lower Amazon). — Gurney, Cat. Birds of 

 Prey, 1894, 39.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. II., vi, 1894, 68 (Trinidad).— 

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



[Pulsatrix] torquata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



[Syrnium] torquatum Kaup, Isis, 1848, 771, part. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 50, 

 no. 535, part. 



Syrnium torquatum Kaup, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1859, 258, part (Guiana). — ■ 

 FiNSCH, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 557 (Trinidad). 



Bubo torquatus Pycraft, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., sec. ser., vii, 1898, 240. 



Strix superciliosa Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 250 (based on La Chouette d 

 collier Levaillant, pi. 42 and Strix torquata Daudin, Traite d'Orn., ii, 193). 



Strix larvata Shaw, Nat. Misc., xix, 180^, pi. 801 (Cayenne; new name for S. 

 personata Daudin). 



Athene melanota (not Noctua melanota Tschudi) Pucheran, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 

 1849, 28 (Brazil; coll. Mus. Paris).— Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 172. 



PULSATRIX PERSPICILLATA SATURATA Ridgway.a 



SOOTY SPECTACLED OWL. 



Similar to P. p. perspicillata but darker; the upper parts (except 

 wings and tail) sooty black or very dark sooty brown, the chest very 

 dark sooty brown or sooty blackish (instead of sooty grayish brown), 

 and the under parts posterior to chest deeper buff (sometimes deep 

 cinnamon-buff), frequently more or less barred (sometimes heavily), 

 except on median line, with sooty blackish, the legs also frequently 

 barred (sometimes heavily) with sooty black; bill larger. 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 390-495 (465); wmg, 314-347 (333.4); 

 tail, 177.5-215 (195.2); culmen, from cere, 27-30 (28.7).^ 



Adultfemale.— Length, (skins), 400-510 (454); wing, 317-360 (339); 

 tail, 164-204 (192.9); culmen, from cere, 27-32.5 (30).*' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomapam; Jalapa; 

 Omealca; Atoyac; Uvero) and Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Tehuantepec 

 City; mountains near Santo Domingo), southward through Guate- 

 mala (Choctum; Antigua; Escuintla; Puerto Barrios), Salvador (La 

 Libertad), British Honduras (Cayo; Toledo District), Nicaragua 

 (Chontales; Chinandega; Momotombo; Sucuy^; San Emilio; Blue- 

 fields), Costa Rica (Angostura; Las Anonas; Escazu; Nicoya; La 

 Palma de Nicoya; Bebedero; Guanacaste; Pigres; Cerro Santa 

 Maria; Bolson; Laguaria and San Joaquin,Dota; ElPozodeTerraba; 

 Pozo del Rio Grande; Rio Sicsola, Talamanca; Gu^cimo), and west- 

 ern Panama (Chitra, Castillo, and Calobre, Veragua; Boquete, 

 Bogaba, and Boqueron, Chiriqul) to eastern PanamS, on Pacific side 

 (Cana, Darien) ; western Colombia ? 



o New subspecies. (Type no. 155672, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Biol. Survey collection), 

 adult female, Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 18, 1895; Nelson and Goldman.) 

 b Eleven specimens. c Ten specimens. 



