2 STEIGIDiE. 



S. Candida as distinct species, there remains the variable S. flammea, concerning which 

 much difference of opinion has and does prevail as to whether the bird of the Old 

 World is separable from that of the New, and whether the latter again is divisible into 

 several forms. In the present instance we treat the American bird as distinct from 

 that of Europe ; and going beyond our present subject we may state that we believe 

 that 8. punctatissima of the Galapagos Islands, S. nigrescens of the Lesser Antilles, 

 and perhaps S. furcata of Jamaica can, as a rule, be readily recognized from the 

 continental bird. 



1. Strix perlata. 



Strix perlata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 59' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 132^; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 

 1869, p. 367'. 



Strix pratincola, Bp. Comp. List, p. 7"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 390'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 222'; Duges, La Nat. i, p. 138^; Grayson, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 270'; Ferrari- 

 Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 163 '; Herrera, La Nat. (2) i. pp. 178, 321"; Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, i. p. 325, t. 12. f. 1"; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 787"; 

 Fisher, Bull. U. S. Dept. Agr. no. 9, p. 132, t. 19". 



Strix flammea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 291 (partim)" ; in Rowley's Orn. Misc. i. p. 263" ; 

 Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 456 ". 



Strix flammea, \ar. pratincola, Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 13"; Lawr. 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 298 " ; BuU. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 38 " ; Sumichrast, La 

 Nat. y. p. 238 '°. 



Strix flammea, var. guatemala, Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iii. p. 11 "^ 



Strix flammea guatemalm, Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125^^; Cherrie, Auk, 1892, 

 p. 327"; Richmond, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 520". 



Supra cervina, nigricanti-griseo et albo minutissime irrorafca, plumis singulis macula elongata medialiter alba 

 tenninata, facie alba, oculorum ambitu rufescente, margine faciali nigricanti-mfo : subtus alba, cervino 

 plerumque lavata, nigricante guttato, plumis singulis medialiter biguttatis ; alia subtus albia, primariis ad 

 apicem nigricante irroratis et in dimidio distali nigricante fasciatis ; cauda supra paUide cervina, fasciis 

 quatuor indistinctis notata inter eas fusco irrorata. Long, tota circa 15"5, alae 13*0, caudsB 5'8, tarsi 2'9. 

 (Descr. exempl. ex San Geronimo, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. NoETH America, Temperate and Southern States. — Mexico, Presidio de Mazatlan 

 [Forrer), Tres Marias Is. {Grayson^ ^^), Rio Ameria {Xantus^^), Aguas Calientes 

 {W. JB. Richardson), Agua Azul near Guadalajara {Jouy ^^), Arozo Hondo, Gudala- 

 jara {Br. A. C. Buller, in mus, Rothschild), Guanajuato, Guadalajara {Dugbs '^), 

 Valley of Mexico {Herrera ^o), Mexicalcingo, Llano de Chapulco ^, Forres 

 de la Catedral de Puebla^, Chietla^ {Ferrari-Perez), Orizaba {Sumichrast^^), 

 Oaxaca {Boucard^, M. Trujillo), Cacoprieto 20, Tehuantepec city 1^, Tonala^o 

 {Sw/nichrast), Izamal ^^, Tizimin 1^, Calotmul in Yucatan {G. F. Gaumer) ; Guate- 

 mala {Skinner^), Duenas, San Geronimo {0. S. & F. B. G.); Salvador {U.S. Nat. 

 Mus.) ; Nicaragua (/. M. Bow, in U.S. Nat. Mus.^^), San Carlos ( W. B. Richardson), 

 Chinandega {EicJcs, in U.S. Nat. Mus.^^), E. Escondido {Richmond 2*) ; Costa Rica* 



