766 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 67 (Trinidad; notes).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xii, 1898, 157 (Puebla Vieja, Santa Marta, Colombia); Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, iii, 1902, 26 (Boquete^ 4,000 ft., and Bugaba, Cbiriqui, Panama). 



[Syrnium] virgatum Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 49, no. 529. 



Ulula virgata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 12 (Striges), 1863, 15. 



Ciccaba virgata Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 216 (Chitra, Calovevora, 

 Calobre, and Bugaba, Veragua, Panama); Ibis, 1889, 374 (Meco I., Yucatan; 

 crit.). — ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 304 (Cbyavetas, 

 e. Peru); 1879, 539 (Concordia, Antioquia, Colombia). — Taczanowski, Orn. 

 du Perou, i, 1884, 182. — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1885, 110 (Macbay, Ecuador).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PMla., 

 1890, 126 (Mexico; Cayenne; Bogota; Trinidad). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 29, part (Tampico, Tamaulipas; Jalapa, 

 Cofre de Perote, Orizaba, and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Cacoprieto, and Tapana, 

 Oa,xaca; Teapa, Tabasco; Tuxtla, Chiapas; Izamal, Colutmul, and Meco I., 

 Yucatan; Choctum, Coban, Calderas, Duenas, Savana Grande, and Retal- 

 huleu, Guatemala; Orange Walk and San Felipe, Brit. Honduras; San 

 Rafael del Norte and Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; San Jos6, Liberia, Alajuela, 

 Cartage, Volcan de Irazu, Dota Mts., Escazu, and Santa Rosa, Costa Rica; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba, Chitra, Calovevora, Calobre, and line of Panama 

 Railway, Panama; Colombia; Venezuela).— Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, 

 1906, 45 (Caparo and Chaguanas, Trinidad; crit.). — Berlepsch, Novit. Zool., 

 XV, 1908, 288 (Cayenne). 



[Ciccaba] virgata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 295.— Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 605 (Bulum, n. w. 

 Ecuador.) 



[Nyctimene] virgata Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 252 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Central America). 



Macabra virgata Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 39. 



Strix virgata Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 477 (near Cartago, Guayabo, 

 Volcan de Irazu, Escazu, El Pozo de Terraba, and Boruca, Costa Rica). 



Syrnium lineatum (not Strix lineata Shaw) LjiWrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862 

 (signature dated Feb., 1862), 462 (Lion Hill, Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 



{'i)Ciccaba huhula (not Strix huhula Daudin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1858, 96 (s. Mexico; crit.). 



CICCABA VIRGATA SQUAMULATA (Bonaparte). 



SQUAMTTLATED OWL. 



Adults (hoth sexes). — Similar to the lighter phase of 0. v. virgata 

 but upper parts lighter brown and more or less spotted with white, 

 especially on pileum and hindneck; under parts much paler, the gen- 

 eral color dull white, even on breast and chest, the legs paler cinna- 

 mon-buffy, sometimes immaculate. 



Young. — Much paler than corresponding stage of G. v. virgata, the 

 general color light cinnamon-buff or deep pinkish buff, the face nearly 

 white; scapulars, interscapulars, and \ving-coverts without concealed 

 bars of dusky. 



^^wZ^ maZe.— Length (skins), 330-345 (337); wing, 239-254 (247.1); 

 tail, 139-151 (143.9); culmen, from cere, 18-20 (19.3).« 



a Nine specimens. 



