586 BIRDS OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO— RIDGWAY. vol.xix 



IBrnchyoius jyalnstris.'] c. ffalapagocnsls, Cotes, Birds N.-W., 1^74. p. 307. 



Asia {/alapagmsis, .Salvin, Tiaus. Zool. Soc, IX, Pt. ix, 1876, p. 493 (James and In- 

 defatigable islands). 



[Asio accipitrinus.] y. Asia galapagoenHs, Siiahpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., II, 1875, 

 p. 238. 



Asio accipitrinus (nee Strix accipitrina, Pallas), Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., II, 

 1875, p. 234 (part). 



Specific characters. — Similar to A. accipitrimis (Pallas), but .smaller 

 (wiug 11-11.1)0) ; legs marked with narrow dusky bars, and under i)arts 

 with a greater or less number of transverse dusky bars; dorsal region 

 irregular barred or transversely spotted with fulvous; outer webs of 

 l^rimaries with the brown spaces more extensive than the fulvous ones 

 on the basal iwrtiou. 



liangc. — Galapagos Archipelago: Albemarle Island (Baur and Ad- 

 ams); Hood Island (Baur and Adams); Indefatigable Island (Ilabel); 

 James Island (Darwin) ; Tower Island (Baur and Adams) ; Bindloe Island 

 (Baur and Adams). 



"Colour. — Facial disc; plumose feathers immediately around the 

 eyes, nearly black, tipped with glossy fulvous; those nearer the margin 

 are white at their base, and only slightly tipped with a darker brown. 

 Between the eyes a band of small fulvous feathers with a central streak 

 of dark brown, passing backward, blends into the plumage of the nape. 

 Back of head and throat streaked with fulvous and brown, the centre 

 of each feather being brown, and its edges fulvous. Interscapular re- 

 gion and the feathers of the wing, coloured in the same manner, but the 

 fulvous part is indented on each side of the shaft in the brown, giving an 

 obscurely barred appearance to these feathers. Primaries brown, with 

 large rounded marks of fulvous ; those on the first feather being smaller, 

 and almost white: wing-coverts brown, and but little mottled. Tail 

 with transverse bars of the same brown and fulvous, the latter colour 

 much clearer and stronger on the external feathers; in the central ones, 

 the fulvous part includes irregular markings of the dark brown. Under 

 surface. — Throat and breast, with center of each feather brown, edged 

 with fulvous; the former colour being predominant. On the belly and 

 under tail-coverts the brown coloured marks on the shafts are narrow, 

 but they are united to narrow transverse bars, which form at the points 

 of intersection marked something like arrow-heads. The fulvous tint is 

 here predominant. Downy feathers on thighs same fulvous colour as 

 rest of body. Bill l)lack. 



" Form. — Second jirimary scarcely percej)tibly longer than the lirst, 

 and fourth rather longer than first. Tarsi thickly clothed with short 

 feathers to the root of the nails. 



In. I In. 



"Total If'ugtii 13^ I Middle toe to root of nail liV 



Wings 11 i From tip of T)eak to interior edge of 



Tail 6 nostril A 



Tarsi 2 



"Habitat, James Island, Gala^iagos Archipelago, {October). 



