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Pulsatrix torquata (?) Sclatek and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. , 1873, 304 (Cha- 

 micuros, e. Peru).— Allen, Bull. Essex Inst., viii, 1876, 81 (Santarem, lower 

 Amazon).— Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 71 (Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana).— Eikee, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 160 (Santarem, lower Amazon).— Gtjeney, Cat. Birds of 

 Prey, 1894, 39.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., vi, 1894, 68 (Trinidad).— 

 Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 16 (Loma del Leon, Panama). 



{Pulsatrix] torqiMta Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



[Symium] torquatum Kaup, Isis, 1848, 771, part.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 50, 

 no. 535, part. 



Symium torquatum Katjp, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., iv, 1859, 258, part (Guiana).— 

 FiNSCH, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 557 (Trinidad). 



Bubo torquatus Pycrapt, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., sec. ser., vii, 1898, 240. 



Strix mperdliosa Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 250 (based on La Chouette d, 

 collier Levaillant, pi. 42 and Strix torquata Daudin, Traite d'Om., ii, 193). 



Strix larvata Shaw, Nat. Misc., xix, 1808, pi. 801 (Cayenne; new name for S. 

 personata Daudin). 



Athene melanota (not Noctua melanota Tschudi) Pucheean, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 

 1849, 28 (Brazil; coll. Mus. Paris).— Strickland, Om. Syn., i, 1855, 172. 



PULSATRIX PERSPICILLATA SATURATA Ridgway." 

 BOOTY SPECTACLED OWL. 



Similar to P. p. perspiciUata but darker; the upper parts (except 

 wings and tail) sooty black or very dark sooty brown, the chest very 

 dark sooty brown or sooty blackish (instead of sooty grayish brown), 

 and the imder parts posterior to chest deeper buff (sometimes deep 

 cinnamon-buff), frequently more or less barred (sometimes heavily), 

 except on median line, with sooty blackish, the legs also frequently 

 barred (sometimes heavily) with sooty black; bUl larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 390-495 (465); wing, 314-347 (333.4); 

 tail, 177.5-215 (195.2); cuhnen, from cere, 27-30 (28.7) J> 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 400-510 (454); wing, 317-360 (339); 

 tail, 164-204 (192.9); cuhnen, from cere, 27-32.5 (30)." 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomap^m; Jalapa; 

 Omealca; Atoyic; Uvero) and Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Tehuintepec 

 City; mountains near Santo Domingo), southward through Guate- 

 mala (Choctlim; Antigua; Escuintla; Puerto Barrios), Salvad6r (La 

 Libertad), British Honduras (Cayo; Toledo District), Nicaragua 

 (Chontales; Chinandega; Momotombo; Sucuyd; SanEmilio; Blue- 

 fields), Costa Rica (Angostura; Las Anonas; Escazd; Nicoya; La 

 Pahna de Nicoya; Bebedero; Guanacaste; Pigres; Cerro Santa 

 Maria; Bols6n; Lagudria and San Joaquin, Dota; ElPozodeT6rraba; 

 Pozo del Rio Grande; Rio SIcsola, Talamanca; Gu^cimo), and west- 

 ern Panama (Chitra, Castillo, and Calobre, Verfigua; Boquete, 

 Bogaba, and Boquer6n, Chiriqui) to eastern Panama on Pacific side 

 (Cana, Dari6n) ; western Colombia ? 



" New subspecies. (Type no. 155672, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. (Biol. Survey collection), 

 adult female, Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 18, 1895; Nelson and Goldman.) 

 f> Eleven specimens. ' Ten specimens. 



