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VOL, I. NO. 14. 
A NEW GREAT HORNED OWE EROM VENEZUEXA, 
WITH NOTES ON THE NAMES OF THE 
AMERICAN EORMS. 
By Harry C. Oberholser. 
A single specimen of Ihibo, collected by Mr. George K. Clierrie in 
Venezuela, and now deposited in the collection of the BrookUm Institute 
Museum, proves to belong to an apparent!}' undescribed form. Through 
Mr. Cherrie’s courtesy, I am privileged to provide it with a name ; and 
in view of its comparatively dark coloration, it appropriately may be 
called ; 
Bubo virginianus scotinus, subspecies nova. 
Chars, subsp . — Nearest Ihibo viroinia)ras mcJanccrvs, from Mexico, 
but darker, particularly on the entire upper surface ; face darker, more 
rufescent, legs more deepl}' rufous, and less heavily mottled with dusky. 
Description. — Type, adult male, No. 5242, Museum of Brooklyn 
In.stitute ; Caicara, Rio Orinoco, Venezuela, June 28, 1907 ; George K. 
Cherrie. Upper parts blackish brown, much mottled with tawin^ 
ochraceous, ochraceous buff, and buffy white ; wings the same, but 
rather lighter, the quills irregularly barred ; tail .similar — dark brown, 
with broad irregular and broken bars of buff and ochraceous buff, 
narrower and .somewhat ill-defined on the middle feathers ; face tawny, 
mixed with blackish and buff}' ; sides of neck .similar, but with more 
blackish markings ; chin tawny, with broad black .shaft markings ; 
moustachial stripe and a transverse throat patch white ; rest of lower 
Essued vSeptember 15th, 1908 
