(PRINCE MAXIMILIAN'S PARROT.)
+Pionus maximiliani+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 114; _White, P. Z.
S._ 1882, p. 622 (Salta).
_Description._--Dark green; lores blackish; feathers of nape dirty
white margined with green; front and cheeks bluish: beneath dusky
green, crissum scarlet: whole length 9·0 inches, wing 6·5, tail 3·2.
_Female_ similar.
_Hab._ Brazil and N. Argentina.
White obtained a single specimen of this Parrot in the dense forests of
the Rio Vermejo, near Oran, in November 1880.
Order VI. STRIGES.
About 40 different species of the nocturnal birds of prey are known
to occur in the Neotropical Region. Six of them have been recorded as
being found more or less frequently within the limits of the Argentine
Republic. Of these, the Burrowing-Owl (_Pholeoptynx cunicularia_) is one
of the most characteristic inhabitants of the Argentine Pampas, while
two others, the Barn-Owl and the Short-eared Owl, are very widely
diffused species, also well known in England.
Fam. XXX. STRIGIDÆ, or BARN-OWLS.