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aostly whitish on distal ones; tail crossed by four or five very dis- 

 inct narrow bands of light ochraceous-buff , or buffy white, these inter- 

 upted only by the dark brown shafts; face, including "eyebrows" 

 superciliary region), dull brownish white, the postocular, auricular, 

 Lud suborbital regions concentrically barred with dark brown, the 

 )ars broader and darker posteriorly, narrower and more faint ante- 

 iorly, the feathers of lores and superciliary region with black shafts; 

 eathers immediately surrounding eyes dusky; facial rim or border 

 rery dark brown (dark seal brown), in part (mostly along posterior 

 sdge and across throat) spotted with buff; ground color of under 

 )arts light ochraceous to buff; foreneck, chest, and breast broadly 

 )arred with dark brown (like general color of upper parts), the bars 

 nuch wider on lower breast; sides, flanks, and abdomen (except 

 ilong median line) broadly striped with deep brown (vandyke brown 

 ,o mars brown); legs more or less barred or mottled with brown; 

 mder tail-coverts mostly immaculate, but usually the longer feathers 

 vith a narrow mesial subterminal streak of brown; bill light yeUow; 

 ris dark brown; toes light yellowish brown (in dried skins). 



Adult female.— Length, (skin), 417; wing, 300-325 (312.5); tail, 

 ; 92-200 (196); cuhnen, from cere, 22.5-24.5 (23.5). » 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcto de Fuego; Volcto de Tacana; 

 Cexp^m; Cajabdn; Duenas; near Antigua) and Chiapas (Teopisca). 



Symium nebuloswm. (not Strix nebviosa Forster) Sciatee and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 221 (Cajabon, Guatemala). 



Symium fulvescens Sclateb and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 58 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Salvin. and Godman and Brit. Mns.). — Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., ii, 1875, 258. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 

 9, pi. 61 (near Antigua, Cajabon, Duenas, Volcaai de Fuego, and Volcan de 

 Tacana, Guatemala). 



[Symiu'm]fulvescens Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 48, no. 506. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 116.— Shahpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, 293. 



[Symium nebulosum] vax. fulvescens Ridgwat, Bull. Essex Inst., v, Dec, 1873, 

 200, in text. 



Symium nebulosum, var. fulvescens Ridgwat, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 29, footnote. 



[Symdum nebulosum] c. fulvescens Goues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 309 (synonymy). 



Ulula fulvescens Schlbqel, Mus. Pays-Bae, ii, no. 86 (Revue), 1873, 19. 



STRK OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS (Xantus). 



SPOTTED OWL 



Somewhat like S. varia but smaller, spotted, instead of barred, 

 ibove, and posterior under parts spotted instead of striped. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Upper parts brown (nearest warm sepia), 

 jregularly spotted with white, the spots larger and more transverse 



<» Two specimens. No specimens with sex determined as male are in the series 

 jxamined. Five specimens ot unknown sex measure as follows: Length (skins), 

 110^85 (457); wii^, 300-310 (307); tail, 188-210 (202.8); culmen, from cere, 22-24 



;23). 



