AVES STRIGID.*:. 709 



Noctua natta, DCS Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 246 (1847); Schl - 

 Mus. Pays Bas, Strigcs, p. 25 (1862); Phil. & Landb. Cat Av. Chil. 

 p. 6 (1868). 



Athene lencofaitnn, Bp. Consp. Av. I. p. 40 (1850). 



Sfrix c/ti/fnsis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Bcrol. p. 8 (1854). 



PhaUenopsis mrna, Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 654 (1855). 



Phaltmopsis Uucolaima, Bp. torn Cit. p. 654. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Adult male, P. U. O. C. 7877, Punta Arenas, Chili (Straits of 

 Magellan), 2 January, 1898. A. E. Colburn, collector. 



Total length, 6.8 inches. 



Wing, 3.75 inches. 



Tail, 2.45 inches. 



Adult female. Like the male in appearance but larger ; length 7.80 ; 

 wing 4.25; tail 2.8 inches. 



Color. Adult male cited above. 



Fio. 361. 



Gleauidmm nanum. Adult male, P. U. O. C. 7877. Natural size. 



Head: Above, dull ash-brown, streaked on the forehead plainly and 

 elsewhere more obscurely with silvery white ; lores and region about the 

 eye white, the lores with many black hair-like bristles obscuring the under- 

 lying feathers ; facial disk dull ash-brown, streaked with silvery white ; a 

 more or less well defined margin of silvery white encircling the facial disk 

 from the white of the lores to the white on the throat 



Neck: With a collar on the nape, whitish in color, with some black 

 markings, scattered on the nape, but forming two black patches, one at 

 either terminus of the white collar, on the sides of the neck ; chin pure 

 silvery white, defined by a dark brown band crossing the upper throat ; 



