BUBO. 



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Fig. 57. — To illustrate the fonn of the foot and the fourth toe, 

 which is reversible. 



180. Bubo scotinus. 

 Yexezuelax Horned Owl. 



Biiho scotinus Oberholser, Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. Bull. i. no. 1^, 

 p. 371, Sept. 1908 (Caicare, Onnoeo) ; Brabourne A: Chubb, B. S. 

 Amer. i. p. 74 no. 686, 1912. 



Buho virginianus Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Gviian. iii. p. 733, 1848 ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 70. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper surface broM-n, ver- 

 miculated and mottled with dull white and buffy-white; quills and 

 outer tail-feathers broadlj barred with buff, the bars inclining to 

 white on the middle ones ; ear-tufts blackish, edged with buff; 

 hinder portion of facial disc rufous and margined with dark brown ; 

 mider surface of body brown, barred with white or sandy-buff. 

 " Bill black ; toes ashy ; claws horn-colour, black at the ends ; 

 iris gamboge-yellow." 



Total length 4G5 nim.,culmen 15, wing 355, tail 180, tarsus (j'l, 

 middle toe and claw 65. 



The male from which the description is taken was collected at 

 the Takutu Mountains. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male both in colour of 

 ])linnage and measurements. 



Jlreedinf/- season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



KgO-^. Undescrii>ed from I'ritish (Juiana. 



