292 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



Ranoe in British Guiana. Itaribisi River (McConnell collection) ; 

 Merunie Mountains ( Whitely) ; Cauuku Mountains (Schomhurgk). 



E.rtralimital Range. Brazil. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis, Guian. iii. p. 732) that he shot 

 this bird on the Canuku Mountains. It was flying aVjout during the 

 day niobl^ed by a lot of other birds. This species, like the former 

 (= Pulsatrix perspicillatd)^ does not attain its foil plumage until 

 the second or third year. Its nidification is unknown. 



Genus SPEOTYTO Glog. 



Speofyfo Glt^r, Hand. u. Hikfb. p. 226, 1841. Tyjje S. cunicuJaria 

 (Molina). 



The distinguishing character of this genus is the unfeathered 

 tanri and toes. 



180. Speotyto brachyptera. 

 Short-winged Blrrovting Owl. 



Speottfto hraehyptera Kichm. Proc. U.S. Xat. Mas. xxv-iii. p. 663, lS9/> 

 (Marsarita Island) ; Braboiune & Chubb, B. S. Aiuer. i. p. 77, 

 no. 715, 1912. 



Athene cunicularia (nee Mol.), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 731, 

 1»4S. 



Speotyto cunicularia (nee Mol.), Sulvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 71. 



Adult male. General colour above earth-brown, the feathers 

 everywhere spotted with white ; feathers above the eye and 

 on the hinder cheeks, as well as those on the chin, white — a line 

 across the fore-neck also white ; remainder of the under surface 

 buffy- white with rufous-brown cross-bars. 



Total length 220 mm., culmen 16, wing 150, tail 05, tarsus 47, 

 middle toe and claw 20. 



The desoription of the male is based on an example collected on 

 the Rupununi Savannas. 



Adult female. Like the adult male. Wing 140 mm. 



The female examined by us is in the British Museum, and 

 was collected by Dr. P. R. Lowe on Margarita Island on the 

 22nd March, 1900. 



Breeding -season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. It nests in the excavations made by the armadillos and 

 ant-bears (Schomburgk). 



Eggs. It lays two or three white eggs (Schomburgk), 



Range in British Guiana. Upper Takutn Mountains, Rupununi 

 Savannas (McConnell collection). 



