BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 647 



Adult /«?rwiZc.— Length (skins), 465-510 (486); wing, 350-365 

 (359.7); tail, 235-252 (242.6); culmen, from cere, 24.5-28.5 (26.8).« 



Higher mountains of central and southern Mexico, in States of Vera 

 Cruz (Mirad6r), Puebla (pine zone of Mount Orizaba), Mexico ("Val- 

 ley of Mexico"), Oaxaca (La Parada; Cerro San Fehpe), Guerrero 

 (Omilteme), MichoacAn (Mount Tancltaro), Jalisco (Las Canoas; 

 Volc&n de Nieve; Cerro Viejo Jojolit^n; Sierra de Cuyutld,n; Los 

 Masos; Col6nia Brizuela, near AutMn), and Durango (Ciudad 

 Durango) . 



Symium nebulosum (not Strix nebulosa Forster) Sclateb, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1858, 295 (La Parada, Oaxaca). 

 Symium nebulosum, var. sartorii Bidgway, BuU. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 200 



(Mirador, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico; colL U. S. Nat. Mua.); in Baird, Brewer, and 



Bidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ui, 1874, 29, footnote. 

 [Srynium Tiebulosum] b. sartorii Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 309 (synonymy). 

 Symium sartorii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 258, footnote. — Gurnet, 



Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 40. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 



iii, 1897, 9 (Ciudad Durango; Cerro Viejo Jojolitan, Sierra de Cuyutlan, and 



Colonia Brizuela near Autlan, Jalisco; Monte Alto; Valley of Mexico; La 



Parada, Oaxaca; Mirador, Vera Cruz). 

 [Symium] sartorii Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 293. 

 Slymiuml nebulosum sartorii Bidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 258. 

 Symium nebulosum sartorii Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (pine zone of Mt. Orizaba, 



Puebla). 



STMX FULVESCENS (Sclater and Salvin). 



GnATEMAI^ir BARBED OWL. 



Resembling S. varia and subspecies in pattern of coloration (the 

 toes naked as in S. v. aUeni and S. v. alhogilva), but decidedly smaller 

 and coloration much more fulvescent, the lighter markings mostly 

 Ught ochraceous or deep buff instead of whitish. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Prevailing color of upper parts rich dark 

 warm brown (dark burnt umber or dark vandyke brown); pileum, 

 hindneck, and upper back very broadly barred with light ochraceous 

 to deep buff, the first two having two bars on each feather, about 

 equal in width to the dark brown interspaces, the last with only one 

 ochraceous bar, this much broader than the dark brown terminal bar; 

 scapulars, lower back, and rump with less regular, as well as mostly 

 smaller, bars or transverse spots of ochraceous, those on posterior 

 portion of scapulars paler (sometimes whitish), in form of transverse 

 ovoid spots; wing-coverts with small and indistinct bars or spots of 

 pale brown and ochraceous, the outer webs of distal greater and 

 middle coverts with large roundish subterminal spots of white; sec- 

 ondaries crossed by five or six rather broad bands (two of them con- 

 cealed by greater coverts) of light brown more or less mottled mth 

 darker and usually becoming whitish toward edge; outer webs of 

 primaries with large spots, these Hght brown on proximal quills, 



o Seven specimens. 



