32 BANGS — A NEW BARRED OWL pee: 
Subspecific characters.— Size of true S. xebulosum ; toes naked as in S. x. 
allent ; colors very pallid throughout; ground color of back, wings and tail, 
pale yellowish brown or cinnamon, lightest on wings and tail, and shading on 
head toward sepia; all the light bars and spots on primaries, tertials and 
scapulars, large and conspicuous and white; the light bars on tail wider and 
paler than in true S. xebulosum ; colors below all paler; dark striping and 
barring more cinnamomeous, less dusky, and ground color paler, more 
whitish; feathers of tibia and tarsus, buff to whitish, showing very little, or 
none whatever, of the dusky markings present in both S. xedulosum and S. 72. 
alleni. 
Size.— Type, Q adult: wing, 331; tail, 211 mm. Topotype, ¢ adult: 
wing, 347; tail, 214 mm. 
