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Adult female.— Length (skins), 335-392 (353); wing, 240-265 

 (251.6); tail, 147-163 (154.1); culmen, from cere, 18.5-21.5 (20.2). « 



Western and southwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (Mazathln; 

 Presidio deMazatlan; Escuinapa; CuUacdn; Mount Juan Lisiarraga), 

 Jalisco (LaPisagua; Sal sePuerdes, 5,000 feet; Hacienda San Marcos, 

 nearZapotlan; Acatan; Hacienda del Lazo ; Wakenakili Mountains), 

 Michoacdn (La Salada; near Ahuacana), Colima (Colima; Plains of 

 Colima), and Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Tehuantepec City), and Ter- 

 ritory of Tepic (Kio Ameca, near Amatlan de Canas; Arroyo de 

 Padion; Sierra de Nayarit). 



[Symium] squamulata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 53 (Mexico; coll. Leyden 

 Mus.; ex Strix squamulata Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



Athene squamulata Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Mus. Berol., 1854, 7. 



Ciccaba squamulata Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 37 (Tehuan- 

 tepec City, Oaxaca; crit.; descr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1897, 30 (Mazatlan and Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Sierra de 

 Nayarit, Tepic; Hacienda Sau Marcos near Zapotlan, Hacienda del Lazo, 

 and Acatan, Jalisco; Colima; Plains of Colima; Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). — 

 Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 347 (Escuinapa, etc., 

 s. Sinaloa; crit.). 



[Ciccaba] squamulata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 295. 



S[trix] v[irgata] squamulata Phillips, Auk, xxviii, Jan., 1911, 77, in text. 



Symium virgatum (not of Cassin) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 298 

 (Mazatlan; Colima). 



CICCABA VIRGATA TAMAULIPENSIS (Phillips). 



TAMATTLIPAS OWL. 



Very similar to C. v. squamulata but pileum, back, etc., barred with 

 pale brownish buffy, and devoid of w'hite spots. 



Adult mMle. —Length, (skins), 320-330 (325); wing, 235-238 (236.5); 

 tail, 137-148.5 (142.7); culmen, from cere, 18-19.5 (18.7).*' 



Northeastern Mexico, in State of Tamaulipas (Eio Martinez; Sierra 

 Madre above Ciudad Victoria?; Tampico?). 



{l)Ciccaba virgata (not Symium, virgatum Cassin) Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 29, part (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria, 



Tamaulipas). 

 Strix virgata tamaulipensis Phillips, Auk, xxviii, Jan., 1911, 76 (Rio Martinez, 



w. Tamaulipas; coll. Mus. Comp. Zoology). 



Genus NYCTEA Stephens. 



Nyctea Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1826, 63. (Type, Strix erminea 



Shaw=5. nyctea Linnaeus.) 

 Nyctia (emendation) Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 217. 



a Ten specimens. 



6 Two specimens; no females seen. 



