410 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



acacia and cactus of the desert about Monte Cristi or the moist 

 situations further eastward. 



The amount of individual variation in this series is remarkable. 

 Two specimens are indistinguishable from C. m. maynardi. Four 

 others are typical C. m. nesiotes, while the rest vary between the two 

 extremes. When arranged in a series Haitian specimens average 

 somewhat lighter below than Jamaican birds and darker than Ba- 

 haman representatives; however the range of individual variation 

 is so great as to render it inadvisable to describe a race from Santo 

 Domingo, which at best would be a poorly marked one. 



Coccyzus dovimicns Bonaparte, (Consp. Avium, 1850, 1, p. 112), 

 should not be quoted in the synonymy of C. m. nesiotes as the figure 

 of C%icul%is dominicensis (Brisson, Ornith., 4, pi. 9, fig. 2), upon which 

 Bonaparte's description is based is certainly not that of any form of 

 Coccyzus minor. Moreover Brisson includes "Louisianne" in the 

 ange of his Coucou de St. Domingue. 



49. Speotyto floridana dominicensis Cory. 



Cucu; Cucusa. 



A pair, Sosua. 



The Haitian Burrowing Owl is somewhat local in its distribution. 

 It was rather common in the desert about Monte Cristi where the 

 holes were found, sometimes in the open, leading in under a cactus, 

 or even the banks of an irrigation ditch. Several, birds were started 

 from beside the road between Monte Cristi and Santiago on the night 

 of February 14. When alarmed they flew off uttering a note strongly 

 suggesting the alarm whistle of the Hudsonian Curlew. 



The pair taken at Sosua had a burrow with two entrances dug in red 

 soil which stained both birds on the wings, tail, and top of the head. 



In Book XIV, Chap. VII Oviedo says, "There are viochuelos [Red 

 Owls] also, small like the lechuzas [Barn Owls] or buhos [owls], and some 

 even smaller like those of Castilla." 



50. Tyto GLAtrcoPS (Kaup). 

 Lcchuza. 



While I did not actually see the Haitian Barn Owl at any point on 

 the north coast, notes were heard at night at several points which 



