BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 661 



Guiana; Amazon Valley; Brazil). — Iherinq, Bev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 



330 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil; crit.).— Salvadohi, Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, 



XV, 1900, 12 (Urucum, Mattogrosso, s. w. Brazil). — Haktebt and Venturi, 



Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 235 (Tucuman, Argentina). 

 [Asia] stygius Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 21. — Sharpe, Hand-liet, i, 1899, 



281. 

 A[sio] stygius Ridgwat, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 257. 

 Phasmoptynx stygius Gurnby, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 36. 

 Otus siguapa D'Orbigny, in La Sagra'a Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 31, pi. 2 



(Cuba). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 50 (Cuba). — Cabanis, Joum. fiir 



Om., 1855, 465 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 226; 



•Joum. fur Om., 1871, 374 (Cuba; habits). 

 Oltus] siguapa Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1844, 40. 

 [Ottts] siguapa Gundlach, Joum. fur Orn., 1861, 322 (Cuba). — Gray, Hand-list, 



i, 1869, 50, no. 543. 

 Asio siguapa Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 212. 

 Nyctalops stygius siguapa Bangs and Zappby, Am. Nat., xxxix, April, 1905, 201 



(Isle of Pines, Cuba). 

 [Oius] melanopsis Lichtenstbin, Nom. Mus. Berol., 1854, 6 (Brazil). 

 Otus communis, var. Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 110 (Brazil). 



ASIO FLAMMEUS FLAMMEUS (Pontoppidan). 



SHORT-EARES OWL. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of head, neck, back, scapulars, 

 rump, and under parts light ochraceous to buffy white (the individual 

 variation being very great), each feather, except on rump, vdth a 

 median stripe of dark brovm or blackish brown, the stripes broadest 

 on scapulars ; occiput, hindneck, back, and chest vdth the ochraceous 

 (or buflFy) and brown about equal in extent, but on the under parts 

 the brown stripes becoming gradually narrower posteriorly, until on 

 abdomen and sides they form narrow lines ; flanks, legs, anal region, 

 and under tail-coverts immaculate, the last nearly (sometimes quite) 

 pure white, the legs more deeply buffy or ochraceous; rump more 

 vinaceous buffy or ochraceous, with indisticict crescentic markings of 

 brown J wing-coverts coarsely variegated with irregular markings of 

 dusky brown and ochraceous or buffy, the latter in form of iadenta- 

 tions or confluent spots along edges of feathers, broadest on outer 

 webs ; secondaries dusky brown crossed by about five bands of ochra- 

 ceous or buffy, the last one tenniaal; primaries ochraceous or buff 

 on proximal two-thirds (more or less), the distal portion dusky 

 brown, tipped (broadly) with buffy, this becoming indistinct or obso- 

 lete on longest quills, the dusky brown continued proximaUy in three 

 to five irregularly transverse series of quadrate spots on outer webs, 

 leaving, however, a large basal area of plain ochraceous or buffy, 

 which sometimes passes into white anteriorly; primary coverts plain 

 blackish brown, with one or two indistinct transverse series of ochra- 

 ceous spots on middle portion; tafl ochraceous or buff passing into 

 white exteriorly and terminally, crossed by about five bands of 



