290 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



2^'est. Unrecorded in Britisli Guiana. 



Eygs. Undescribed from British Gruiana. 



Range 171 British Guiana. Georgetown (QuelcJi). 



Ediralimital Range. North-east Brazil, East Peru, Ecuador. 



Habits. Mr. J. J. Quelch, who observed this species in George- 

 town, remarks (Timehri (2) v. p. 102): — "The second species (Scops 

 cristatiis) has been met with but once in my experience, when 

 two young ones were taken from the loft of a house in Brickdam.'^ 



Genus CICCABA Wagl. 

 Clccoha Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1222. Type C. huhiila (Daud.). 



This genus is distinguished chiefly ])y the nnfeathered toes. 



Key to the Species. 



A. T-Jnfons-lirown above, barred with paler rufous and 



dark brown ; untier sui-face sandy buft" marked with [p. 290. 



briijlit tawny C. siipevciUavis inacconnelli, 



B. BLu'k above, narrowly barred with white ; luider 



siirfaL-e also black, but more broadly banded with [p. 291. 



white C.huhulu^ 



184. Ciccaba superciliaris macconnelli, n. subsp. 



McConnell's Guiana Wood-Owl. 



Ciccaha si/percil/aris (nee Pelz.), Salvin, Ibis, 1SS6, p. 71 (Camacusa, 

 Eorainia, 8-300 ft.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 76, 

 no. 70o, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above brown with rufous cross-bars 

 and mottlings to the feathers, including the back, scapulars, upj)er 

 tail-coverts, and upper wing-coverts ; bastard-wing, primarv- 

 coverts, flight- quills, and tail-feathers more broadly banded with 

 tawny-brown mottlings; crown of head, nape, and sides of neck 

 darker than the back and inclining to black ; su[)erciliary streak 

 butfv-white ; the bristly feathers which suriound the bill white 

 with black shafts ; sides of face and throat ferruginous barred 

 with brown ; breast and remainder of the tnider surface tawny- 

 bufl' barred or mottled with brown ; axillaries tinged with 

 cinnamon. 



Total length 325 mm.,culmen 31, wing 238, tail 137, tarsus 41. 



The type was collected on the Ituribisi River in October l'J08, 

 and is in the McConnell collection. 



