FAMILY STRIGIDAE 165 



PULSATRIX PERSPICILLATA SATURATA Ridgway 



Pulsatrix perspicillata saturata Ridgway, U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 6, 

 April 8, 1914, p. 758. (Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico.) 



Characters. — Dorsal coloration more uniform, with head only 

 slightly darker than the back ; slightly browner black in both light and 

 dark phases; with partly concealed light barring on scapulars and 

 wing coverts ; usually barred narrowly with dusky to fuscous-brown 

 on lower breast and sides. 



Measurements. — Males (4 from Honduras, Costa Rica, and Chiri- 

 qui), wing 320-329 (323.2), tail 177-182 (179.0), culmen from 

 cere 28.9-31.1 (30.3) mm. 



Females (6 from Mexico, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Bocas del 

 Toro), wing 320-347 (337.0), tail 181-211 (193.8), culmen from 

 cere 26.7-31.5 (28.9, average of 5) mm. 



Resident. Found locally in western Chiriqui and western Bocas del 

 Toro, ranging up to 1,350 meters in the lower Subtropical Zone. 



Little is known of this race of the spectacled owl in Panama. The 

 only specimen taken by Arce was reported by Salvin ( Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1870, p. 216) from Bugaba, Chiriqui. I have received 2 

 others from this province from Dr. F. A. Hartman. Both are males, 

 1 from Santa Clara, taken March 4, 1958, and the other from El 

 Volcan, February 8, 1953. These birds apparently are more common 

 in Bocas del Toro where specimens have been taken near Changuinola 

 and Almirante, and also inland on the Rio Changuena. 



PULSATRIX PERSPICILLATA CHAPMANI Griscom 



Pulsatrix perspicillata chapmani Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 72, no. 9, 

 January 1932, p. 325. (Perme, San Bias, Panama.) 



Characters. — Back, wings, and tail in general duller, somewhat 

 grayer brownish black; head and hindneck blacker than the rest of 

 the dorsal surface ; lighter markings in scapular area much restricted, 

 those of the wing coverts slight in extent or lacking ; usually without 

 dark barring on breast and sides, and where present this is of slight 

 extent. 



A male collected on Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien, February 25, 1964, 

 had the iris yellow ; bill dull yellow ; cere pale greenish neutral gray ; 

 bare ends of toes pale yellowish white, the scutes centrally dull pale 

 neutral gray ; claws horn color at base changing to black at tip. 



A female taken on the Cerro Azul, Panama, April 25, 1949, had the 

 iris orange-yellow ; bill dull greenish yellow ; cere neutral gray ; bare 



