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Cacoprieto, Oaxaca; Coban and San Pedro Martir, Guatemala; San Jose, etc., 

 CoBta Rica; Vivala, etc., Panama). — Bangs, Auk, xviii, 1901, 358 (Divala, 

 Chiriqui, Panama). — Carrikbk, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 476 (San Jos6, 

 Pozo Azul de Pirris, Santo Domingo, Escazu, Rio Sicsola, and El Hogar, 

 Costa Rica). 



[Lophostrix] stricklandi Sclatbe and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 289. 



[Scops] stricklandi Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 47, no. 499. 



Scops stricklandi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Li, 1875, 124. 



Genus BUBO Dumeril. 



Bubo DuMBEiL, Zool. Analytique, 1806, 34. (Type, by tautonomy, Strix hvho 



Linnaeus.) 

 Ascalaphia Gboffroy St. Hilairb, L'Echo du monde savant, 4« ann^e, Jan. 7, 



1837, 4 (nomen nudum here? but later authors give type as Bubo ascalapkua 



Savigny). 

 (?) Euhua Hodgson, Asiat. Researches, xix, 1836, 173. (Type, Bubo nipalensis 



Hodgson.) 

 Heliaptez Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 217. (Type, Strix (Bubo) areUca 



Swainson.) 

 (?) Urrua Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vi, 1837, 372. (Type, Otus hengal- 



ensis Franklin). 

 Byas a Morris, in N. Wood's Naturalist, ii, no. 9, June, 1837, 123. (Type, B. 



nobilis Morris =5&'m bubo Linnseus.) 

 (?) Etoglaux Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x, 1841, 28. (Typo, Bubo 



nipalensis Hodgson.) 

 (?) Mesomorpha Hodgson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, x, 1841, 28. (Type, Otm 



bengalensis Franklin.) 

 Aibryas Glogee, Handb. Naturg., 1842, 223. (Type, Stria; (Bubo) aretica 



Swainson.) 

 Nyctaetus Gloger, Handb. Naturg., 1842, 223. (Type, Strix facfea Temminck.) 

 Megaptynx Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, "Strix 



magellanicus Gmelin" — Bubo magellanicus Daudin.) 

 Pachyptynx Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, Strix 



lactea Temminck.) 

 Nisuella Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 542. (Type, Strix 



maculosa Vieillot.) 

 (?) Ptiloskelos Tickbll, Jouin. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxvui, 1859, 448. (Tjrpe, Bubo 



nipalensis Hodgson.) 



Large to very large Bubonidae (wing about 350-520 mm.), with 

 conspicuous ear-tufts, external ear-opening relatively small, simple, 

 and nonoperculate, cere not inflated laterally, toes feathered, and bill 

 and feet relatively stout. 



Bill very stout; top of cere much shorter than chord of culmen, 

 gradually but slightly ascending basally, not distinctly if at all 

 arched. Nostril moderately large, circular or broadly oval, opening 

 la upper-anterior edge of cere, enclosing within its upper-posterior mar- 

 gin an oblique cartilaginous shelf. External ear-openings relatively 

 small, oval, without dermal flap or operculum, symmetrical, but 



» ^iac, the owl. (Richmond.) 



