liiii
i f Z ■ . 1 f e ■ '" "r i w U d , ommmmt the
mon a d f e f A ” 'm, whito oeellotions
pon a da,k browii^ground. dhe same chai-aotor o f markings also pervades the face, hindor-noek
f e T " n : “:■■■* and Im.gest in tho present f e f e ’
SIX 1 eqnallmg the tlurd. Tlio first is 1-5 in. sliorter than the fourth and fifth. The first
three primaries do not appear to bo so deeply excised as in the allied species.
ih e fiont Y r o in onr plate represents ivhat we believe to be the normal plnman-e o f this
■ s y Y win 0 the hinder figure represents the hepatic form so freqiieiitly mot with in this family
of birds._ Both the speeimens figured .are from I'era Paz. and J e in Messrs. Salvin a„d
odnian s collection. The only other individual we have seen, ivliieh is in tho oolloctioi, o f the
Smithsonian Institnt.oii (h o . 42.770), was also obtained in Vera Paz by Mr. Ilenrv Hamie „f
S.m Geronimo. dins bird is mtennediate in eolonr between the two we liave fiaiircd °
Since we treated o f this group o f Owls in the “ Proeeediiigs” o f tho Zoologfoal Society we
diluMr„Tferfi*’’'’' T r “ '’r ' >>nt have been nriahíe to
distinguí h I t fiom S . b,-as,hams. S. lop),ates o f Lesson, o f which we have also seen the tvne
IS probably only a paler form o f the same bird. There remain, therefore, oMy so;
AA ell-marked species o f tins genus in America, namely
a. Digitis setosis.
(1) 5 . a .m (L m n .) B a ird ’s B. N . A. p. 51. ex America s e p ten tr. universá.
(2 ) y . len sicM i, E lliot, Proo. Ac. P h i LS67, p. 99, e.r A m o ric l bor. occ
(3) « « . p . . - , , i r . . l e r , I . Í . , 1S32, p. 270. « lo.ooo»;, C o ,™ . Ex. T o t . . , Moxioo, „ G „ o to » .lA
b. Digitis omnino nudis.
(■i) S.JlommeoIa, ex California Mexico e t Guatemala.
(5 ) S. barbarus, e.x G uatemalá.
e ,.,. a .„ . r 0. 10. . .
IJigitis cum tarforum dimidio hasali nudis.
( / ) o’, fludi'pi# (1 ieill.). n a d ;/)« , Vieill. Ois de I 'i i n Sen t i -n 'i t (• i* ; • ?,
E i.t« tO ,ls, E.tC„«ÓHIcófA™J,