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Speotyto cunicularia nanodes'* Berlepsch and Stolzman. Peruvian 

 Burrowing Owl. 

 S[peotyto] cunicularia nanodes Berlepsch and Stolzman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1892, p. 388, in text (Lima). 



Range: Coast region of central Peru. 



*Speotyto cunicularia intermedia Cory}" Intermediate Burrowing 

 Owl. 

 Speotyto cunicularia intermedia Cory, Field Mus. Pub., No. 182, Orn. Ser., I, 

 No. 8, 1915, p. 300 (Pacasmayo, Peru). 



Range: Coast region of northern Peru. 



i: Peru (Pacasmayo). (Type of subspecies.) 



Speotyto cunicularia punensis" Chapman. Puna Island Burrowing 

 Owl. 

 Speotyto cunicularia punensis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXIII, 

 1914, p. 318 (Puna Island, off Ecuador). 



Range: Puna Island, off Ecuador. 



Speotyto cunicularia tolimae'^ Stone. 



Speotyto cunicularia tolimae Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, p. 303 

 (Plain of Tolima, Colombia). 



Range: Colombia. 



*Speotyto cunicularia minor* subsp. nov. Lesser Burrowing Owl. 



ISpeotyto hrachyptera Chubb, Bds. Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 292. 



Range: Rio Branco Region, northern Brazil; British Guiana? 



4: Northern Brazil (Boa Vista, Rio Branco, including type of 

 subspecies; and base of Serra da Lua, near Boa Vista, Amazonas). 



■ Speotyto cunicularia nanodes Berl. & Stolz : About the size of beckeri, or 

 slightly smaller, but coloration much more earthy brown and less rufous brown; 

 under parts less heavily and more irregularly barred (than in beckeri), the markings 

 being pale and narrow on the flanks; whitish bands on outer tail feathers usually 

 complete and tinged with buff. (Specimens examined from Lima.) Wing, (male) 



168; tail 89 mm. 



'' Speotyto cunicularia intermedia Cory: Intermediate between S. c. nanodes 

 Berl. & Stolz. and 5. c. punensis\CnAPUAT<i ; upper parts like punensis, but less heavily 

 marked with white on the crown and nape, but much more so and purer white than 

 in nanodes; under parts more heavily marked with brown than in nanodes, the heavy 

 brown markings extending to the abdomen and flanks; wing, (female) 165 mm. 



" Speotyto cunicularia punensis Chapman: General color paler; upper parts more 

 heavily marked with white than on nanodes; brown markings on under parts pale and 

 becoming nearly or quite obsolete on lower abdomen and thighs. 



^ Speotyto cunicularia tolimae Stone : Smaller and decidedly darker colored 

 above; pronts brown; forehead and throat white; wing, about 150 mm.; bands on 

 outer tail feather incomplete, usually confined to rounded spots. 



" Speotyto cunicularia minor subsp. nov. Type from Boa Vista, Rio Branco, 

 Amazonas, Brazil. Female No. 47509, Field Museum of Natural History. Col- 

 lected by M. P. Anderson, Nov. 29, 1912. Nearest to Speotyto c. brachyptera Rich- 

 mond, but differs in averaging darker; size smaller; thighs and flanks more tinged with 

 ochraceous; wing, I42;tail, 55; tarsus, 40. (Average of three females, wing 142.5 mm.) 



