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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Hatcher collected the pair of birds used as a basis for the descriptions 

 given above, in the Cordillera at the upper waters of the Rio Chico de 

 Santa Cruz, late in February. The birds seem to be rathar rare even 

 where they occur, no large representation, as in the case of Bubo niagel- 

 lanicus, being recorded from any locality. 



Fig. 356. 



Strix rufipcs. Detail of feathering of foot and toes. Natural size. 



Genus SPEOTYTO Gloger. 



Type. 



Speotyto, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 226 (1842); Sharpe, 

 Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 142 (1875); Sharpe, Hand- 

 list Eds. i. p. 297 (1899) S. amicularia. 



Pholeoptynx, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 769 5. amicularia. 



Geographical Range. — Western North America, east to the great plains, 



and south through middle America to Guatemala; southern Florida; 



Central and all of South America. 



Speotyto cunicularia (Molina). 



La Chouette de Coquimbo, Briss. Orn. I. p. 525 (1760). 

 Coquimbo Owl, Lath. Gen. Syn. I. p. 145 (1781). 



