Vol. XXVI, pp. 153-154 June 30, 1913 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



THE BAHAMA BARN OWL. 



BY J. H. RILEY. 

 [Published bj permission oi the Secretarj oi the Smithsonian Institution.] 



When writing the bird report on the birds collected upon the 

 Geographic Society of Baltimore's expedition to the Bahamas, 

 I prepared some remarks upon a specimen of the Barn Owl shot 

 at Nassau, but when copying my paper to send to The Auk,* 

 through an unaccountable oversight they were entirely omitted. 

 Mr. Ridgway with the addition of two Bahaman specimens in 

 the collection of Outran) Bangs, kindly loaned him for study, 

 lias called my attention to the fact that the Bahaman bird 

 differs from that of the eastern United States and has kindly 

 permitted me to describe it. It may lie known as: 



Tyto perlatus lucayanus subsp. now 



Type, I'. S. National Museum, No. 189,671, adult male, New Provi- 

 ilenre. Bahamas, June 30, L903. Collected by J. H. Riley (original No. 

 •'»( i ) . 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Tyto perlatus pratincola, hut with 

 less amount of the grayish black-vermiculated tipped leathers of the 

 upper part-. 



Description. — Top of head, neck, and upper hack tawny ochraceous 

 with a lew blackish spots or mottlings and some minute grayish white 

 spots along the shaft of the feathers; feathers of the interscapular region, 

 grayish basally, tawny ochraceous subterminally with irregular black 

 mottlings, and grayish terminally with black vermiculations and with a 

 white shaft spot near the tip; rump ami upper-tail coverts tawny 

 ochraceous with a few black markings and minute white spots along the 

 shaft; bend of wing tawny ochraceous with black markings and small 

 white spots along the shaft; rest of wing-coverts largely tawny ochra- 

 ceous, with black spots, some of the feathers grayish terminally with 

 black vermiculations and a white shaft spot near the tip, the primary 

 * XXII. 1905, pp. ::i- !60 



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