NO. 1116. 



rEOCEEDIXCS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



583 



Family STRlGIDxE. 



Genus STRIX, Linnaeus. 



Strix, LiNN.KUS, Syst. Nat., lOth ed., I, 1758, p. 92. Type, by elimination, S. aluco, 

 Liunteus (lOtli ed., nee ed. 12). 



72rt,wt'.— Cosmopolitan (except colder regions, Kew Zealand, and 

 parts of Polynesia). Galapagos Arcliipelago (one peculiar species). 



ASCERTAINED RANGE OF THE GENUS STRIX, LINN.EUS, IN THE GALAPAGOS 



ARCHirELAGO. 



1. Strix jniuctattssima, Gray. 

 STRIX PUNCTATISSIMA, Gray. 



SUiximnctaiissima,G. R. Gray, in Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841, 34. pi. iv, 

 (James Island, Galapagos Archipelago : collection British Mus.) ; Gen. Birds, 

 I 1844, p. 41; Hand-1., I, 1869, p. 52. -Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, 1850, p. 

 55.-KAUP, Contr. Orn., 1852, p. 118; Trans. Zool. Soc, IV, 1859, p. 246.- 

 Hartlaub, Jour, fur Orn., 1854, p. 170.— Strickland, Orn. Syn., I, 1855, p. 



