766 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MuB. N. H., Ad, 1894, 67 (Trinidad; notes).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Sec. Wasli., 

 xii, 1898, 157 (Puebla Vieja, Santa Marta, Colombia); Proc. New Engl. Zobl. 

 Club, iii, 1902, 26 (Boquete, 4,000 ft., and Bugaba, Chiriqui, Panama). 



[Syrniurril virgatum Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 49, no. 529. 



Ulula virgata Schlbqel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 12 (Striges), 1863, 15. 



Ciccaha virgata Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 216 (Chitra, Calovevora, 

 Calobre, and Bugaba, Veragua, Panama); Ibis, 1889, 374 (Meco I., Yucatan; 

 crit.). — ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1873, 304 (Chyavetas, 

 e. Peru); 1879, 539 (Concordia, Antioquia, Colombia). — ^Taczanowski, Om. 

 du P6rou, i, 1884, 182. — ^Taczanowski and Berlepsoh, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1885, 110 (Machay, Ecuador).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1890, 126 (Mexico; Cayenne; Bogota; Trinidad). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ui, 1897, 29, part (Tampico, Tamaulipas; Jalapa, 

 Oofre de Perote, Orizaba, and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Cacoprieto, and Tapana, 

 Oaxaca; Teapa, Tabasco; Tuxtla, Chiapas; Izamal, Colutmul, and Meco I., 

 Yucatan; Choctum, Coban, Calderas, Duenas, Savana Grande, and Betal- 

 huleu, Guatemala; Orange Walk and San Felipe, Brit. Honduras; San 

 Eafael del Norte and Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; San Jos6, Liberia, Alajuela, 

 Cartage, Volcan de Irazu, Dota Mts., Escazu, and Santa Rosa, Costa Rica; 

 Volcan de Cbiriqui, Bugaba, Chitra, Calovevora, Calobre, and line of Panama 

 Railway, Panama; Colombia; Venezuela). — Hellmayr, Novlt. Zool., xiii, 

 1906, 45 (Caparo and Chaguanas, Trinidad; crit.). — Berlepsoh, Novit. Zool., 

 XV, 1908, 288 (Cayenne). 



[Ciccaba] virgata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 117. — Shabpe, 

 Hand-list, i, 1899, 295. — Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 605 (Bulum, n. w. 

 Ecuador.) 



[Nyctimene] virgata Heine and Reichbnow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 252 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Central America). 



Macabra virgata Gurney, Cat. Birds of Prey, 1894, 39. 



Strix virgata Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 477 (near Cartago, Guayabo, 

 Volcan de Irazu, Escazu, El Pozo de Terraba, and Boruca, Costa Rica). 



Symium lineatum (not Strix lineata Shaw) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862 

 (signature dated Feb., 1862), 462 (Lion Hill, Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence). 



(?)Ciccaba huhula (not Strix huhula Daudin) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1858, 96 (s. Mexico; crit.). 



CICCABA VIRGATA SQUAMULATA (Bonaparte). 



SQUAMULATED OWL. 



Adults (jbotTi sexes). — Similar to the lighter phase of O. v. virgaia 

 but upper parts lighter brown and more or less spotted with white, 

 especially on pileum and hindneck; under parts much paler, the gen- 

 eral color duU white, even on breast and chest, the legs paler cinna- 

 mon-buffy, sometimes immaculate. 



Young. — ^Much paler than corresponding stage of G. v. virgata, the 

 general color light cinnamon-buff or deep pinkish buff, the face nearly 

 white; scapulars, interscapulars, and wing-coverts without concealed 

 bars of dusky. 



AduU male.— liength. (skins), 330-345 (337); wing, 239-254 (247.1); 

 tail, 139-151 (143.9); cuUnen, from cere, 18-20 (19.3).» 



a Nine specimens. 



