BIKDS OF HOKTH AHD M-WULii AmmaiUA. U I -i- 



Range. — Tropical America, except West Indies and Galapagos 

 Islands. (Monotypic ? ) "* 



RHINOPTYNX CLAMATOR (Vieillot). 



STRIPED HORNED OWL. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Predominant color of upper parts light buff 

 to clear cinnamon-buff or ochraceous-buff, this broken by broad, 

 more or less serrated, stripes of brownish black and coarse transverse 

 vermiculations of the same ; outer webs of exterior scapulars mostly 

 white or buffy white; middle and greater wing-coverts with outer 

 webs mostly buffy white to ochraceous-buff or cinnamon-buff, more 

 or less broken, however (especially on greater coverts), by a few irreg- 

 ular bars or transverse vermiculations of dusky; outer webs of alula 

 broadly edged with buffy white or pale buff; secondaries mottled or 

 vermiculated buff or ochraceous-buff (the innermost ones more or 

 less intermixed with grayish), crossed by well-defined narrow bands 

 of mottled dusky; outer webs of primaries pale buff to cinnamon- 

 buff, with quadrate spots of dusky, except at base of longer quills; 

 tail pale buff to cinnamon-buff, crossed by about seven weU-defined, 

 narrow bands of dusky, which on outer webs average about as wide 

 as the buffy interspaces, except on outermost rectrix, on which they 

 are narrower and disappear on basal portion, those on inner web very 

 much narrower; both the dark and buffy bars are more or less broken 

 by mottlings of lighter and darker, especially on middle rectrices; 

 ear-tufts uniform black, the inner webs of the feathers broadly edged 

 with white or buffy; whole face, includir^ superciliary region ("eye- 

 brow"), dull white, more or less tinged with brownish (sometimes with 

 deep rusty brown) on suborbital region; broad and conspicuous facial 

 rim uniform black, on the throat broken into guttate streaks on a white 

 and cinnamoneous ground; foreneck immaculate white; rest of 

 under parts buff or ochraceous-buff and white (the latter sometimes 

 wanting in more deeply colored specimens), the sides of breast with 

 large guttate longitudinal spots of black, the sides and flanks with 

 much narrower, more linear, stripes of the same; anal region, under 

 taU-coverts, and legs immaculate buff, or the longest under tail-coverts 

 sometimes with very narrow terminal mesial streaks, and the tarsi 

 sometimes sparsely flecked with dusky; under wing-coverts buffy 

 white to light ochraceous-buff, usually with a few dusky strealra 

 toward edge of wing, sometimes wholly immaculate; under primary- 

 coverts dark grayish brown with basal half (approximately) pale 

 buff; under surface of remiges pale buff, the distal portion of prima- 



o I have not seen Otus midas Schlegel nor 0. macrurug Kaup. The former is said 

 to be closely related to R. damator and may be only subspecifically distinct; the 

 latter remains unidentified. 



