BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBICA. 759 



Symium perspidllatum Sciateb and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 222 (Escuintla and 

 Antigua, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 280 (Bluefields B., Nica- 

 ragua).— Laweencb, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 132 (Las Anonas, Costa 

 Rica).— Frantzius, Jouin. flir Om., 1869, 366 (Costa Bica).— Shakpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 277, part (Chitra, Panama; Guatemala; Tehuan- 

 tepec).— BioHMOND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 520 (Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua). 



Pulsatrix pmpieillatus Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890, 126, part (Nica- 

 ragua; Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 294 (Pozo del Bio 

 Grande, Costa Bica). — Carhikee, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 474 (Pigres, 

 San Joaquin de Dota, Cerro Santa Maria, Bolson, Guanacaste, Guacimo, Rio 

 Sicsola, Bebedero, and El Pozo de Terraba, Costa Rica). 



Ciccaba perspidllata (not Strix perspidllata Latham) Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 28 (Atoyac, Santecomapam, Omealca, and Uvero, 

 Vera Cruz; Tebuantepec and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; Cayo, Brit. Hon- 

 duras; Cboctum and Escuintla, Guatemala; La Libertad, Salvador; Sucuya, 

 Bluefields, CMnandega, Momotombo, and San Emilia, Nicaragua; Nicoya, 

 La Palma de Nicoya, Bebedero, Las Anonas, and Angostura, Costa Rica; 

 Chitra, Castillo, Calobre, and Bugaba, Panama). 



[Pulsatrixl perspidllata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 284, part. 



Pulsatrix perspidlatl Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 25 (Bogaba, 

 Panama). 



Ciccaba torquata (not Strix torqvata Daudin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1857, 227 (Santecomapam, Vera Cruz). — Frantzius, Joum. fur Om., 1869, 

 366 (Costa Bica). 



Pulsatrix torquata Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 216 (Chitra, Castillo, and 

 Bugaba, Panama). — (?) Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 

 539 (Cauca, w. Colombia). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 

 38 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 403 

 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa Bica); vi, 1883, 388 (Sucuya, Nicaragua). — 

 Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Bica, i, 1887, 125 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — • 

 Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 219 (Puerto Barrios, 

 Guatemala). 



\Pulsatrix\ torquata Sclatbr and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117, part. 



Genus CICCABA Wagler. 



Ciccaba Waqleb, Isis, 1832, 1222. (Type, Strix huhula Daudin.) 



Macabra Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., vi (2), 1854, 541. (Type, as fixed 



by Gray, Strix hylopMla Temminck.) 

 Nyctimene "■ Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 252. 



(New name for Macabra Bonaparte, on grounds of purism.) 



Medium-sized Bubonidse (wing about 210-293 mm.), without ear- 

 tufts, with ear-conch relatively small, nonoperculate, and sym- 

 metrical, and toes entirely naked. (Somewhat resembling Pulsatrix 

 but of much lighter buUd, especially the bill and feet, and toes naked.) 



Bill relatively rather small; top of cere much shorter than chord 

 of culmen, rather narrow, nearly straight or very faintly convex. 

 Nostril rather large, oval, obliquely vertical, in upper-anterior edge 

 of cere. Wing rather long and poiated, the longest primaries exceed- 

 ing distal secondaries by about one-third the total length of wiag; 



« iVif (vu/cr-), night; /iijui), the moon. (Richmond). 



