scries blackish, mottled or notched near the base with white, thu8 

 resembhng the inner lining of the wing. Total length 15-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-8, wmg 11, tail &[), tarsus 1-95. 



Bab. Central America, from Mexico to Veragua. 



?• ^^- ^^,- Veragua. M. E. Arc6 rO.!' 



*• •'"''• '^- Veragua. M. E. Arc^ [cj- 



Subsp. a. Sjrrnium spilonctum. 

 Syrniuni spilonotum, Grai/, Hand-1. B. i. p. 49 {ihscr. nulla). 



Adult. Above black, banded or rather spotted with white, the 

 tiars not earned across many of the feathers, and very few in number 

 on the wmg-covcrts and scapulars ; the head rather darker than the 

 back, the spots on the feathers small and transverse, the hind neck 

 or wig distinctly barred with white, forming a collar round the hind 

 neck ; quills chocolate-brown, banded with lighter brown, inclinino- 

 to white on most of the outer webs, and more distinct on the secon- 

 daries ; upper tail-coverts black, banded with white; taU black 

 tipped with white and crossed with six bars of the same, one con- 

 cealed by the coverts ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts 

 black, minutely spotted Avith white, as also the facial ruff; chin 

 black ; rest of under surface white, thicklv and regularly barred 

 across with black ; leg-feathers black, indistiuctlv barred with white • 

 under wmg-coverts white, barred with black, the greater series more 

 indistinctly, thus resembling the inner lining of the win"' Total 

 length 16-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 11-2, tail 6-5, tarsusl-9. 



Obs. This species appears to ditier constantly from S nu/ro- 

 lineatum m its darker under surface, the black bars being very 

 much broader. ^ 



Hob. Columbia. 



"r -^'J- ^\- Bogota. Purchased. 



*• ^\- «f • Bogota. Pm-chased. 



c. Ad. sk. Bogota. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



23. Syrnium perspicillatum. 



Spectacle-Owl, Latli. Gm. Si/u. Siip/)L i. p. .50, pi. cvii. 



Strix peispicillaia, Lath. Inil. Orn. i. p. 58. ' ' 



Chouette a colUer, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. 'pi. 42 ; Sundev. Cr!t. om 



Levaill. p. 28. 

 Chouette a masque noir, Levaill. Ois. crAfr. i. pi. 44 ; Swuhv. Crit. 



p. 28. 

 Strix torquata, Daiid. Traits, ii. p. 193 (e.r Levaill.). 

 Strix personata, Daitd. Traite, ii. p. 192 (^.r LcvailL). 

 Strix Jarvata, Slunv ^- Noddet; Nut. Misc. xix. pi. 801. 

 Strix pulsatrix, Max. Ecis. Bras. i. p. 300. 

 Noctua torquata Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 07; Less. Traite, 



p. lOo ; 1) Orb. J oi/. Am. Me rid. Oi.<. p. ' 



Syrnium pulsatrix, Ma.c. Beitr. Orn. Bras. iii. p. 208; Gray, Hand-1 



B. 1. p. 50. 



