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2. Asio mexicanus*. 

 Le Hibou du BiL^il, i^z-m. Oni. i. p. 499. 

 Mexican Eared Owl, Lnt/t. Gen. Si/it. i. pt. 1, p. 12-3. 

 Strix mexicana, Gm. S^sf. Xat. i. p. 2^8 (ex Lath.) : Atnlitb. Oni. 



Biogr. iv. p. 574. 

 Nacuriitii chorreado, Azara, Aptnit. i. p. 202. 

 Bubo claiiiiitor, Vieill. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. p. 52, pi. 20. 

 Strix maeidata, Vieill. N. Did. d' Hid. Xat. vii. p. 45. 

 Strix claniata, Max. Bcitr. iii. p. 2dl ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. 



p. 1279. 

 Strix louprirostris, Spix, Aves Bra^. p. 20, pi. 9 a. 

 Otus mexicanus, Ciivier, Reqiie Anim. i. p. 341 (1829) ; Bp. Oss. Regn. 



An. Cud. p. 42 ; Less. Tritite. p. 110 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 40; Hartl. 



Ind. Azara, p. 3 ; Kaup, Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 235 ; CV/ss. B. Calif. Sf 



Tea-, p. 195; Grai/, Hand-l. i. p. 51; Pelz. Oni. Bras. pp. 10, 400. 

 Otus americanus, Jard. Ann. N. H. xviii. p. 118 ; Burnt. TJi. Bras. ii. 



p. 123 ; Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 18G9, p. 034 ; iid. Xumencl. Ao. Xeotr. 



p. 116. 

 Scops clamator, Graij, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 45. 

 Rliiuoptyux mexicanus, Kaup, Contr. Oni. 1852, p. 114; id. Tr. Z. S. 



iv. p. 235 ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zoul. 1854, p. 541. 

 Asio mexicanus, Strickl. Orn. Sijn. p. 208. 

 Bubo mexicanus, Ridgic. B. X. Am. iii. p. 01. 



Adult. General colour above golden buff, everywhere more or less 

 obscured with blackish, the centre of the feathers being entirely of 

 the latter colour and producing a longitudinally striped appearance, 

 the plumes having lateral vermiculations and wavy bars of blackish, 

 so that the back has rather an obscure appearance ; scapulars less 

 vermiculated externally, so that they appear to have oval patches of 

 golden buff on the outer web ; wing-coverts golden buff', vermicu- 

 lated with dark brown, the latter colour predominating on the outer- 

 most coverts ; the primarj'-coverts almost entirelj* blackish bro^vn, 

 with bars of lighter brown obscured by darker vermiculations ; quills 

 ashy brown, with very distinct cross bands of darker brown, breaking 

 up into vermiculations on the secondaries, all the interspaces being 

 more or less obscm-ed by freeklings of dark brown : the primaries 

 lighter than the secondaries, and inclining to pale orange-buff towards 

 their external base ; upper tail-coverts brownish, slightly mottled 

 with golden buff ; tail dull fulvous, with seven tolerably broad bands 

 uf darker brown, narrower and more indistinct towards the apex, 

 the inner webs banded with narrower bars of dark bro\vn, about ten 

 in number, the bases of the tail-feathers paler and more distinctly 

 golden buff ; crown of head and neck deeper golden than the back, 

 the central streaks of black rather narrower and the vermiculations 

 more scanty, being generally represented by thread-like bars branch- 



* Asio midas. 



Otus inidas, Lichf. Nomeiicl. Av p. 6 ; Schl. Mas. P.-B. Oti, p. 2 ; Gray, 

 Hand I. B. i. p. .50. 

 Professor Schlegel says this is a large form of A. iacvicamis. lie does uot 

 unite it to the latter bird ; and I therefore think it better to keep it distinct, at 

 least for the present. The following are his uieasureiueuts taken I'rcm the type 

 in Berlin — total leiifith 18 inches, wing 11'6. tail 59. 

 Hub. Moutevideo. 



