NO. 1116. 



PBOCEEDINGS OF THE XJTIOXAL MUSEUM. 



585 



Family 15FBONID.E. 



Genus ASIO, Brisson. 

 Jsio, Brisson, Orn., I, ITHO, p. L'8. Tyi)e, Sfrix otus, ^^innaMis. 

 Range. — iSTearly cosmopolitan (wanting in New Zealand and Aus- 

 tralia and parts of Polynesia). Galapagos Archipelago (one ])eculiar 

 species). 



ASCP:UTAINKI) range of the genus ASIO, ISRISSOX, in the GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO. 



1. Asia </(i}a]}(i</oe)isis (Gould 



ASIO GALAPAGOENSIS (Gould). 



Otus (lirachi/otus) galajyagoensis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, Pt. v, 1837, p. 10 (Gala- 

 pagos Islands; collectioii Zool. Soc). 



Otus galaparjoensis, Gould, iu Zool. Voy. Beagle, III, Birds, 1841, p. 32, pi. in 

 (James Island), — Gray, Geu. Birds, I, 1844, p. 40.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc., 1870, p. 323 (Indefatigable Island). 



Brachf/ottts galapagoensis, Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 1, 1850, p, 51. — Cassin, Illustr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 18.54, p. 183.— Hartlaub, .lour. fiir. Oru., 1854, p, 170, 



Asio galapagoensis, Strickland, Oru. Syu,, I, 1855, p, 211. — Rid(;way, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mns., IV, 1881 (Apr. 6, 1882), p. 371 (synonymy), XII, 1889 (1890), 

 pp. 120, 122, 123 (James and Indefatiguble islands). 



