78 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 



loured dark brown; of a similar hue to the nape; the lower 

 breast, abdomen, flanks, and thighs of the same brown tints, 

 but with each feather exhibiting two or three pairs of lateral 

 spots and a narrow tip, all of which are white, with more or 

 less of an ochraceous tinge; the under tail-coverts are similar, 

 but with the white spots larger and broadened into transverse 

 bars; the under wing-coverts are a whole-coloured dark brown, 

 like the breast, except the lowest feathers, which exhibit white 

 Spots in pairs; the undersides of the quill -feathers of the wing 

 are of a similar but duller brown, transversely and more or 

 less regularly barred with black. The bill is slaty black, 

 slightly mottled with dirty white about the edges of both man- 

 dibles. The tarsi and feet are olive - brown, with a tinge of 

 yellow towards the extremities of the toes. Culmen, exclusive 

 of cere 1,1, wing 11, tail 10,9, tarsus 3,4, middle toe s. u. 2,1. 

 Hab.: Forest Region of Panama. 



FAM. STRIGIDjE. 



Gymnoscops nov. gen. 



H. B. Tristram, Ibis, S. IV, vol. IV, No. 16, October 1880, 

 p. 456, pl. XIV. 



Ear-tufts rudimentary; tarsi and feet unfeathered. 



Qymnoscops insularis. 



H. B. Tristram ibid. 



Above dark chestnut; the feathers on the head irregularly 

 mottled with black and pale fawn-colour; the neck dappled with 

 black and lsabel - colour, but without any streaks; the feathers 

 on the back barred with the same, and with black lines down 

 the shafts, many of the upper wing-coverts having their outer 

 web light lsabel - colour; the secondaries with the shafts black 

 and ribbed with sandy rufous towards the outer edge of both 

 webs; the primaries brown-black on the inner web, and barred 

 with various shades of chestnut and buff on the outer, very 

 feeble towards the tips, which are mottled on both webs with 

 brown and chestnut; the tail brown, thickly mottled, and faintly 

 barred with chestnut; lores and sides of face very light chestnut, 

 the feathers delicately fringed with brown; basal plumes black 

 tipped; ear-tufts rudimentary, and scarcely to be detected; under 

 surface of the body light chestnut, richly mottled and irregularly 

 barred with white , and arrow - shaped black streaks down the 

 centres of the feathers; under tail-coverts buify white, with a 

 pale rufous bar near the end, and white tip; the under wing- 

 coverts pale buff; the undcrside of the primaries dark brown, 

 and the inner webs of the secondaries light buff"; feathering of 

 the legs Short and close, of rieh rufous chestnut and faint 

 blackish bars and spots; tarsi very strong, and entirely bare 

 excepting a very narrow line of plumage for a quarter of an 



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