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Syrnium perspicillatum. Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (Escuintla and 

 Antigua, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18G7, 280 (Bluefields R., Nica- 

 ragua).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 (Las Anonas, Costa, 

 Rica).— Frantzius, Joum. ftir Orn., 1869, 366 (Costa Rica).— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 277, part (Chitra, Panama; Guatemala; Tehuan- 

 tepec).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 520 (Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua). 



Pulsatrix perspicillatus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 126, part (Nica- 

 ragua; Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 294 (Pozo del Rio 

 Grande, Costa Rica). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 474 (Pigres, 

 San Joaquin de Dota, Cerro Santa Maria, Bolson, Guanacaste, Guacimo, Rio 

 Sicsola, Bebedero, and EI Pozo de Terraba, Costa Rica). 



Ciccaba perspicillaia (not Strix perspicillata Latham) Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 28 (Atoyac, Santecomapam, Omealca, and Uvero, 

 Vera Cruz; Tehuantepec and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; Cayo, Brit. Ilon- 

 duras; Choctum and Escuintla, Guatemala; La Libertad, Salvador; Sucuya, 

 Bluefields, Chinandega, Momotombo, and San EmiLi«, Nicaragua; Nicoya, 

 La Palma de Nicoya, Bebedero, Las Anonas, and Angostura, Costa Rica; 

 Chitra, Castillo, Calobre, and Bugaba, Panama). 



[Pulsatrix] perspicillata Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 284, part. 



Pulsatrix perspicilatl Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 25 (Bogaba, 

 Panama). 



Ciccaba torquata (not Strix torquata Daudin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857, 227 (Santecomapam, Vera Cruz). — Frantzius, Joum. fiir Oni., 1869, 

 366 (Costa Rica). 



Pulsatrix torquata Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 216 (Chitra, Castillo, and 

 Bugaba, Panama). — (?) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 

 539 (Cauca, w. Colombia). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 

 38 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 403 

 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa Rica); vi, 1883, 388 (Sucuya, Nicaragua). — 

 Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 125 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — 

 Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 219 (Puerto Barrios, 

 Guatemala). 



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



Genus CICCABA Wagler. 



Ciccaba Wagler, Isis, 1832, 1222. (Type, Strix huhiila Daudin.) 



Macabra Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 541. (Type, as fixed 



by Gray, Strix hylophila Temminck.) 

 Nyctimene « Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 252. 



(New name for Macabra Bonaparte, on grounds of purism.) 



Medium-sized Bubonidse (wing about 210-293 mm.), without ear- 

 tufts, with ear-conch relatively small, nonoperculate, and sym- 

 metrical, and toes entirely naked. (Somewhat resembling Pulsatrix 

 but of much lighter build, especially the bill and feet, and toes naked.) 



Bill relatively rather small; top of cere much shorter than chord 

 of culmen, rather narrow, nearly straight or very faintlj^ convex. 

 Nostril rather large, oval, obliquely vertical, in upper-anterior edge 

 of cere. Wing rather long and pointed, the longest primaries exceed- 

 ing distal secondaries by about one-third the total length of wmg; 



« Nu^ {VUKT-), night; {itjvjj, the moon. (Richmond). 



