142 BUBONID^. 



wing-coverts white, many of the feathers with brown bases, causing 

 a slightly streaked appearance, the lower series whitish at base, ashy 

 brown at tip, thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, which 

 are ashy brown below, spotted on the outer and broadly barred on 

 the inner web with yellowish white ; bill light yellow ; iris bright 

 yellow. Total length 9-5 inches, wing 5-8, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-05. 

 (Mus. A. 0. Hume.) 



Hah. Central India ; " the dense forests of the eastern portion of 

 the central provinces, on the borders of the Tributary Mehals " 

 {Hume). 



9. SPEOTYTO. 



Type. 



Speotyto, Gloger, Handh. Naturg. p. 220 (1842) S. cunicularia. 



Phaleopt}'ux, Kmip, Isis, 1848, p. 769 S. cunicularia. 



1. Wing of Speotyto cunicuJaria. 



2. Nostril of same (from fi'esh specimen). 



li'inr/e. Southern and western portions of United States, through- 

 out the whole of Central and South America. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. Inner lining of quills fulvescent; the first pri- 

 mary with live or six isabelline bars, much 

 broader at the base of the inner web than 

 the intervening brown interspace ; primary- 

 coverts spotted like the quiUs cunindaria, p. 142. 



h. Inner Hning of quills dark brown ; the first pri- 

 mary with four fulvous bands on inner web, 

 smaller and narrower than the brown inter- 

 space ; primary-coverts blackish brown, with 

 a single fulvous bar faintly indicated guadeloupensis, p. 148. 



1. Speotyto cunicularia. 



La Chouette de Coquimbo, Briss. Orn. i. p. 525. 



Coquimbo Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 145. 



Strix cunicularia, Molina, Stor. Chil. p. 34.3 ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 292 (e.r 



Lath.); Aiidiib. B. N. Am. pi. ccccxxii. ; id. Orn. Bioqr. v. p. 264 ; 



Bp. Am. Orn. i. p. G8, pi. 7. fig. 2; Max. Beitr. iii. p. 248. 

 La Chouette de St. Domingue, Sonn. ed. Buff. iv. p. 145. 

 Strix dominicensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 296. 

 Urucurea, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 211 ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 4. 

 Stri.x grallaria, Spix, Av. Bras. i. p. 21 ; Temm. PL Col. 14G, 

 Noctua gi-aUaria, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 67. 

 Ulula cunicidaria; Jard. ed. Wils. Am. Orn. iii. p. 325. 



