FAMILY TYTONID^E 



narrow bands o^ white; face black with eyebrows 

 of white spots; under parts white conspicuously 

 barred with black. 



A medium sized owl with no ear tufts, con- 

 spicuously black and white. Hallinan records 

 one from Gatun and one from Tiger Hill, both 

 found in the dense jungles. "It had a cat-like 

 call." 



Family TYTONID^E 

 The Barn Owls 



7. Tyto perlata guatemalae (Ridgway) 

 Central American Barn Owl 



Sexes alike. Length, about 364 mm. (14.30 



in.); tail, about 141 mm. (5.55 in.). Ground 

 color above tawny, mottled with dusky grayish 

 and speckled with black and white; the tail 

 mottled with dusky and crossed by about five 

 bands of dusky; face white, facial rim orange 

 tawny above, passing to black below; under 

 parts white suffused with tawny buff and with 

 numerous small dusky dots. 



Usually frequents and nests in buildings, 

 sometimes right in the cities. Hallinan reports 

 finding one in Old Panama in the ruins of the 

 Merced Convent tower. Jewel shot one of a pair 

 living in ventilators of a building at Gatun; he 

 notes that they always came out at dusk and 

 flew in the same direction. 

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