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BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Total length 380 mm., ear-tufts 57, ciilmen 33, wing 260, 

 tail 134, tarsus 65. 



The description of the female is taken from an example in the 

 British Museum collected by " Spence " in Venezuela — Salvin- 

 Godman collection. There is also an example in the National 

 Collection, from British Guiana, which is much darker and more 

 inclining to tawny or orange-buff, but from its small size I imagine 

 it to be a young bird. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



liange in British Guiana. Demerara {^McConnell collection^ 



Extralimital liange. Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and 

 Panama in Central America. 



Habits, Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Genus BUBO Dum. 

 Bubo Dumeril, Zool. Analyt. 1806, p. 34. Type JB. bubo Linne. 



The members that constitute this genus are large birds with 

 conspicuous ear-tufts on the sides of the head. The wings are 

 comparatively short, and the tarsi are always feathered. 



Fisr. 56. — To show the larcje ear-tufts 



