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Genus RHINOPTYNX Kaup. 



Rhinoptynx Kaup, ArchW. fur Naturg., XVII, 1851, p. 107 (Type Otus mexi' 

 canus Cnv. = Bubo damator Vieill.). 



*Rhinoptynx clamator (Vieill.). Striped Owl. 



Bubo damator Vieill., Ois Am. Sept., I, 1857, p. 52, pi. 20 ("depius Caienne" 

 etc. = Cayenne, type locality designated by Hellmayr — "Spix's Types," 

 1906, p. 574). 

 Strix longirostris Spix, Av. Bras., I, 1824, p. 20, pi. 9 a. 

 Asio mexicanus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 231. 

 Asio damator Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 283. 



Rhinoptynx damator Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 671. 

 Otus damator Descourtilz, Orn. Bras., 1852, PI. 5, Fig. i. 



Range: Greater portion of South America from Colombia and Gui- 

 ana south to Paraguay. 



3 : Venezuela (Maracay and Lake Valencia) . 



Rhinoptynx midas (Schlegel).^ Montevideo Striped Owl. 



Otus midas Schlegel, Mus. Pas-Bas Oti, 1862 p. 2, note. (Montevideo), 

 Asio midas Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 231, footnote; Dabbene, 

 Bol. Soc. Physis i, 1914, p. 305 (Tucuman). 



Range: Uruguay and Southern Brazil, N. Argentine. 



Genus PSEUDOSCOPS Kaup. 



Pseudoscops Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 769; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., IV, pt. VI, 1859, 

 p. 231 (Type Ephialtes grammicus Gosse). 



*Pseudoscops grammicus {Gosse). Jamaican Long-eared Owl. 



Ephialtes grammicus Gosse, Bds. Jamaica, 1847, p. 19 (Tait-Shafton, Jamaica); 



Id., lUust. Bds. Jamaica, 1849, pi. 4. 

 Asio grammicus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 242. 

 Pseudoscops grammicus Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 465; Id., Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 



188; Scott, Auk, 1892, p. 127; Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 674. 



Range: Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 

 5 : Jamaica. 



Genus BUBO Dumeril. 



Bubo Dumeril, Zool. Analytique, 1806, p. 34 (Type Strix bubo Linn.); (Ober- 

 holser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVII, 1904, pp. 177-192; Id. Bull. Mus. 

 Brooklyn Inst., Arts & Sci., No. 14, 1908, p. 372). 



' Rhinoptynx midas (Schlegel) — According to Schlegel this is allied to R. 

 flamator (Vieill.), but is larger (wing, 1 1.6 in, tail, 5.9). It may prove to be only sub- 

 specifically separable from that species. 



