284 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



No. 1692 — Length, 609 mm. One foot missing from below the kuee; an 

 old wound. 



No. 2387— Length, 603 mm. Extent, 1260.5 mm. Coutained feathers and 

 pieces of goat meat. 



No. 1691— Length, 631 mm. Extent, 1308 mm. 



No. 2581 — Fat. Ovaries slightly enlarged. Stomach contained a foot and 

 some feathers of a petrel. 



No. 2409— Ovaries very small. 



8. Speotyto cunicularia hypogaea. 



Burrowing Owl. — This species may or may not be one of 

 the two kinds of "Strigidce' mentioned in the "Ornithology 

 of Guadeloupe Island," but of which no specimens have 

 ever been taken. It was the only species which I met with, 

 and I have no positive evidence of there being any other 

 owls on the island while I was there, although whenever a 

 favorable night offered itself, I seized the opportunity to 

 watch for nocturnal birds. 



The Mexicaus said that there was a large Owl ("Teco- 

 lote"), which they had occasionally heard hooting at night, 

 but that it was very rare. 



From Dr. Palmer's assistant, I learned that one of the 

 owds which was known to be on the island was a Horned 

 Owl (Bubo). 



A single pair of Ground Owls were the only ones of this 

 species met with. They frequented the open ground on the 

 central part of the island near the alkali pools, appearing 

 only after dusk. The notes made at the time will perhaps 

 give the best idea of the bird's habits as far as these were 

 observed. The third night on which I had watched for 

 them was unusually calm and quite chilly. The lingering 

 twilight rendered objects still visible through the approach- 

 ing gloom. Nearing a large boulder beside which I pur- 

 posed to take my stand for that evening, I suddenly started 

 up one of the very birds of which I was in search. Fright- 

 ened by my approach, she rose a short distance in front of 

 me, and instead of alighting on a rock, as I expected, and 

 thus keeping me within sight, she dropped behind it, dis- 



