BIBDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 767 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 335-392 (353); wing, 240-265 

 (251.6); tail, 147-163 (154.1); culmen, from cere, 18.5-21.5 (20.2)." 



Western and southwestern Mexico, in States of Sinaloa (MazatMn; 

 Presidio deMazatlto; Escuinapa; Culiacin; Mount Juan Lisiarraga), 

 Jalisco (La Pisdgua; Sal sePuerdes, 5,000 feet; Hacienda San Marcos, 

 near Zapotl&n; Acatdn; Hacienda del Lazo; Wakenakili Mountains), 

 Michoacdn (La Salada; near Ahuacana), Colima (CoHma; Plains of 

 Colima), and Oaxaca (Santa Efig6nia; Tehutotepec City), and Ter- 

 ritory of Tepic (Rio Ameca, near Amatldn de Cafias; Arroyo da 

 Padi6n; Sierra de Nayarit). 



[Symium] squamulata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 53 (Mexico; coll. Leyden 

 Mu8.; ex Strix squamulata Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



Athene squamulata Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Mua. Berol., 1854, 7. 



Ciccaba squamulata Lawrence, BuU. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 37 (Teliuan- 

 tepec City, Oaxaca; crit.; descr.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, iii, 1897, 30 (Mazatlan and Presidio de Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Sierra de 

 Nayarit, Tepic; Hacienda San Marcos near Zapotlan, Hacienda del Lazo, 

 and Acatan, Jalisco; Colima; Plains of Colima; Tehuantepec, Oaxaca). — 

 Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 347 (Esciunapa, etc., 

 s. Sinaloa; crit.). 



[Ciccaba] squamulata Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 295. 



S[tnx\ v[irgata] squamulata Phillips, Auk, xxviii, Jan., 1911, 77, in text. 



Symium virgatum (not of Cassin) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 298 

 (Mazatlan; Colima). 



CICCABA VIRGATA TAMAULIPENSIS (Phillips), 



TAMAULIFAS OWL. 



Very similar to C. v. squamulata but pUeum, back, etc., barred with 

 pale brownish buffy, and devoid of white spots. 



Adult mule.— Length, (skins), 320-330 (325); wing, 235-238 (236.5); 

 tail, 137-148.5 (142.7); cuhnen, from cere, 18-19.5 (18.7).* 



Northeastern Mexico, in State of TamauHpas (Rio Martinez ; Sierra 

 Madre above Ciudid Victoria?; Tampico?). 



{'!)Ciccaba virgata (not Symium virgatum Cassin) Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 29, part (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria, 



Tamaulipas). 

 Strix virgata tamaulipensis Phillips, Auk, xxviii, Jan., 1911, 76 (Eio Martinez, 



w. Tamaulipas; coll. Mus. Comp. Zoology). 



Genus NYCTEA Stephens.* 



Nyctea Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, xiii, pt. ii, 1826, 63. (Type, Strix erminea 



Shavr=S. nyctea Linnseus.) 

 Nyctia (emendation) Swainson, Clas'aif. Birds, ii, 1837, 217. 



o Ten specimens. 



6 Two specimens; no females seen. 



