278 BUBONID^. 



Athene torquata, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Cah. in Schomb. Keis. 



Guian. iii. p. 732 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 172 ; Pelz. Oni. Bras. 



pp. 8, 399. 

 Syrnium personatum, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 3. 

 Athene nielanota, Puclier. Bev. Zool. 1849, p. 28 (nee Tschudi) ; 



Strickl. Oi-n. Syn. p. 172. 

 Ciccaba perspicillata, Cass. Cat. Striyid(e I'hilad. Mtis. p. 17. 

 Ciccaba torquata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 43. 

 Ciccaba luelauouota, Bp. Consp. i. p. 43. 

 Pulsatrix torquata, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 122, et Tr. Z. S. iv. 



p. 258; *W. * Salv. Nomcncl. p. 117. 

 y_\Tnium perspicillatum, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 193. 

 Ulula torquata, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 17. 

 Ulula pulsatrix, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 17, note. 

 Syrnium torquatum. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 50. 



Nestling. Covered with pure white down, all the feathers of the 

 face and throat, as well as the loral bristles, black, the ear- coverts 

 with somewhat of a chocolate shade ; wing-coverts light rufous 

 brown, with very broad white tips forming bars across the wing ; 

 quills pale brown, narrowly tipped with white and crossed with 

 numerous bars of darker brown, of which five or six can be distinctly 

 coimted; tail dark brown, nearly uniform and broadlj' tipped with 

 white, crossed with bars of lighter brown, of which about five can 

 be counted on the outermost feathers, gradually decreasing in num- 

 ber towards the centre ones, on which two indistinct ones alone are 

 visible ; under surface of body entirely covered with white down. 



Ohs. Another bird, still in nestling plumage, but more advanced 

 than the foregoing, differs in having a yellow tinge on the down of 

 the wing-coverts and under surface of body ; the upper margin of 

 the wing dull brown ; greater wing-coverts brown, barred across 

 and broadly tipped with yellowish white ; scapulars varied with 

 broad ochraceous bars, causing a somewhat ocellated appearance, 

 the innermost ones barred with white ; quills and tail dark brown, 

 barred with hghter brown and tipped with white, the bars on the 

 latter seven in number. 



Achtlt male. Above uniform chocolate-brown, blacker on the head ; 

 wing-coverts uniform with the back, only a few of the greater 

 coverts with lighter bars ; primary-coverts entirely uniform brown ; 

 quills brown, narrowly tipped with whitish and crossed with bars 

 of lighter brown, nine in number on the primaries and seven on the 

 secondaries ; scapulars brown like the back, the outermost barred 

 ■ft-ith buffy white, forming rather a conspicuous shoulder-spot ; tail 

 dark browu, tipped with white and crossed wdth six bars of lighter 

 brown ; lores white, streaked with black ; eyebrow buffy white ; 

 sides of face entirely blackish brown ; cheeks and sides of neck 

 white ; throat black ; fore neck white, followed by a broad crescentic 

 band of chocolate-brown ; rest of under surface light ochraceous 

 yellow, paler on the leg-feathers ; under wing-coverts also ochra- 

 ceous, except the outermost, which are white and form a conspicuous 

 spot on the margin of the wing ; lower under wing-coverts dark 

 brown, like the wing-lining ; iris brownish orange, the pupil dark 



