TYTO. 205 



188. Tyto perlata. 

 Brazilian Barn-Owl. 



Strix perlafa Licht. Yerz. Doubl. p. 59, 1S23 (" Bi-asil ") ; Cab. in 



Scliomb. Eeis. Guian. iii. p. 732, 1848. 

 Strix Jlammea (nee Linn.), Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 70 (Roraima, 4000 ft.); 



Quelch, Timehri (2) v. p. 102, 1891 (Georgetown). 

 Tyto perlata Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 78, no. 724, 1912. 



Adult. Upper surface dusky brown, finely speckled with white 

 and minute lanceolate white markinos, everywhere tinged with 

 orange-buff or sandy-buff; flight-quills and tail-feathers broadly 

 barred and dusted with brown; facial disc white tipped with 

 orange-buff, some of the feathers edged with blackish brown, the 

 feathers more closely surrounding the eye and base of the bill 

 disintegrated and bristly in texture and those in front of the eye 

 smoky-brown in colour ; underparts silky-white, spotted with pale 

 brown, and more or less tinged with buff. " Bill white ; eye 

 black ; legs, toes, and claws faintish black ■" (H. Wlikely). 



Total length 32.5 mm., culmen (from the base of the skull) 38, 

 wing 338, tail 134, tarsus 78, middle toe and claw f)4. 



The bird from which the descri]:)tion is taken was collected by 

 Mr, McConnell at Mount Roraima in October 1898. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Nest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Efjgs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Mount Roraima, Upper Takutu ]\loun- 

 tains (McConnell collection) ; Mount Roraiuia, 4000 ft. ( Wliiteiy) ; 

 Georgetown (Quelch). 



E.rAralimital Range. Brazil, East Peru. 



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

 only found this bird near the coast, where it seemed to j)refer 

 human dwellings. 



Mr. J. J. Quelch observed this species in Georgetown, and 



remarks (Timehri (2) v. p. 102): — "Throe kinds of Owls will 



occasionally be met with, one of which, the ubiquitous Barn or 



■ tScreech Owl (Strix Jiammea), is extremely common, especially 



about the churches and the laro;er houses on the outskirts.'' 



