CASSIN'S BARRED OWL 



5. Ciccaba virgata virgata (Cassin) 

 Cassin's Barred Owl 



Sexes alike. Length, about 321 mm. (12.60 

 in.); tail, about 133 mm. (5.20 in.). 



Lighter phase. General color of upper parts 

 dusky with'mottlings and irregular bar-like spot- 

 tings of grayish buffy; tail brownish black with 

 tip and four bars of mottled grayish brown and 

 white; eyebrows buff, the feathers tipped with 

 sooty, face buffy brown and dusky, variously 

 streaked and barred ; facial rim buffy flecked with 

 dusky; under parts pale cinnamon buff usually 

 mottled with dusky on sides of breast; sides of 

 breast and abdomen with broad stripes of sooty 

 brown, these stripes sometimes extending across 

 breast. 



Darker phase. The ground color darker 

 below. 



Smaller than C. n. nigrolineata and differing in 

 coloring; dusky above, mottled and barred, cin- 

 namon buff below. A forest bird. An owl 

 apparently of this species seen at Barro Colorado 

 Island in April, 1924. 



6. Ciccaba nigrolineata nigrolineata (Sclater) 

 Black and White Owl 



Sexes alike. Length, about 379 mm. (14.90 



in.); tail, about 165 mm. (6.50 in.). Above 



brownish black, the hindneck and upper tail 



coverts barred with white ; tail with tip and four 



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