Cory on the Birds oj the West Indies. 19^ 



Asio accipitrinus (Pall.). 



Strix acciptritia Pall. Reise Russ. Reich, I, p. 455 (1771). 



Otus brachyotus Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 21 (1850). 



Brachyottis paliistris Cab. J. f. O. 1855, p. 465 (Cuba). 



Brachyotus ca5S/V//V Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60) 



(Cuba).— GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 226 (1865);/*. 



J. f. O. 1871, p. 375 (Cuba). 

 Asio accipitrinus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. II, p. 234 (1875).— Cory, 



ListBds. W. I. p. 21 (1SS5). 

 Accidental in Cuba. 



Asio portoricensis Ridgw. 



Strix brachyotus Suxdev. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 601 (Porto 



Rico) ( .?) 

 Brachyotus cassinii GvsDi.. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 165, 187S; 



ib. J. f. O. 1S78, p. 158 (Porto Rico). 

 Asio portoricensis Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. IV, p. 366 (i88i) (Porto 



Rico).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 21 (1885). 



Sp. Char. "Above dusky brown, nearly or quite uniform on the dorsal 

 region; the scapulars, however, narrowly bordered with paleochra- 

 ceous or dull buff; feathers of the head narrowly, and those of the 

 nape broadly, edged with buff; rump and upper tail-coverts paler 

 brown or fawn-color, the feathers marked near their tips by a cres- 

 centic bar of dark brown. Tail deep ochraceous, crossed by about 

 five distinct bands of dark brown, these very narrow on the lateral 

 rectrices, but growing gradually broader toward the intermedicE, 

 which are dark brown, with five or six pairs of ochraceous spots 

 (corresponding in position to the ochraceous interspaces on the 

 outer tail-feathers), these spots sometimes having a central small 

 brown blotch. Wings with dark brown prevailing, but this much 

 broken by a general and conspicuous spotting of ochraceous ; pri- 

 maries crossed with bands of dark brown and deep ochraceous, the 

 latter broadest on the outer quills, the pictura of which is much 

 as in A. accipitrinus, but with the lighter color usually less ex- 

 tended. Face with dull, rather pale, ochraceous prevailing; this 

 becoming nearly white exteriorly, where bordered, around the side 

 of the head, by a uniform dark brown post-auricular bar; eyes en- 

 tirely surrounded by uniform dusky, this broadest beneath and 

 behind the eye. Lower parts pale ochraceous or buff, the crissum, 

 anal region, tarsi, and tibia; entirely immaculate; jugulum and 

 breast marked with broad stripes of dull brown, the abdomen, sides 

 and flanks with narrow stripes or streaks of the same. Bill dusky; 

 iris yellow. Wing, 11. 25-1 2. 00; tail, 5.25-5.50; culmen, .70; tarsus, 

 1.85-2.00; middle toe, i. 20-1. 30" (Riuuw., orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



