BIEDS OF NOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 611 



Central Amerjca, from Guatemala " (Duefias ; San Ger6nimo) 

 rough Salvad6r (San Salvad6r), Honduras, Nicaragua (Jalapa; 

 valft; Matagalpa; San Carlos; Chinandega), and Costa Rica (San 

 s6; Ochomogo), to Panamfi, (Verfigua; Natfi, Cocl6; Loma del 

 i6n). 



Strix perlata (not of Lichtenstein) Laweencb, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 

 (San Jose, OostaRica). — Feantzius, Joum. furOm., 1869, 367 (Costa Rica). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 2, part (Duefias and 

 San Geronimo, Guatemala; « Salvador; San Carlos, and Chinandega, Nic- 

 aragua; San Jose, Costa Rica; Panama). 



[Strix] perlata Shaepb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 300, part (Central America). 



Strix pratincola perlata Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PhUa., 1890, 125, part (Nica- 

 ragua). 



Strix pratincola (not of Bonaparte) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (Gua- 

 temala). 



[iSfricj/ammea (not of Linnaeus) Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116, 

 part. 



Strix flammea (not of Linnseus) Sharpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 291, part 

 (Veragua, Panama; "Mexico"). 



(?) Strix flammea Boucard, Liste Ois. r^col. Guat., 1878, 22 (Guatemala). 



Strix flammea, var. gvatemalx Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 200 

 (" Panama to Guatemala " ; type locality not given, but type from Chinandega, 

 Nicaragua; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 11 (Chinandega, Nicaragua; Costa Rica; Salvador). 



Sirix pratincola guatemalx Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1, 1887, 125 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — Chereie, Auk, ix, 1892, 327 (San Jose). 



[Strix flammea var. americana] f . giiatemalse Cotjes, Birds Northwest, 1874, 299 

 (synonymy). 



Strix guatemalx Shahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 802 ("Mexico''; Veragua, 

 Panama). — Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 16 (Loma del Leon, 

 Panama). 



Aluco pratincohis guatemalse Zeled6n, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vii, 1885, 111 (Costa 

 Rica). 



Aluco pratincola guatemalse Carrieee, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 479 (San 

 Jose and Ochomogo, Costa Rica). 



T[yto'\ alba guatemalse Haetbet, Vog. Palaarkt. Fauna, heft viii (bd. ii, 2), Aug., 

 1913, 1039. 



TYTO BARGEI (Hartert). 



CURAgAO BARN OWL. 



Similar in coloration to T. alba (of Europe) but much smaller, 

 th wings relatiTely shorter. 



"Face white; a dark brown spot in front of the eye. Upper 

 rface the same as in most of the European specimens. Beneath 

 lite, sparsely spotted with dark brown. Tail pale grayish isabeUine, 

 otted with dark gray, and with four distinct blackish bars. Iris 

 ep brown. Bill whitish flesh color, toes brown, claws deep brown. 



' No Guatemalan examples of this form have been seen by me, the localities being 

 ed from the Biologia Centrali- Americana (iii, p. 2). 



